Another One Bites The Dust
It is a bad time to be a public employee in Okaloosa County. People are starting to ask questions and look at the books.
The Local Puppy Trainer reports that the FWB golf course director forced to retire
Jim Frazier, director of golf at the Fort Walton Beach Golf Course, has been forced to retire.
The action comes as city officials say they’ve found evidence Frazier has given away at least 20,000 free rounds of golf since 2005.
City Manager Bob Mearns said the reason Frazier was facing termination was for insubordination. He was allowed to retire at his own request, Mearns said.
In a letter he forwarded to the Fort Walton Beach mayor and City Council, Frazier called Mearns’ hounding him about complimentary golf rounds a “witch hunt.” He accused former City Councilman Mike Minich, who records indicate played about 40 free rounds, of sicking [sic] Mearns on him.
Frazier works for the city. Mearns is the City Manager. Mearns is Frazier’s boss, but Mearns is new, while Frazier is not.
Frazier claims it is a “computer error”. The “error”, as Frazier explains it, does overstate the number of free rounds, but it also would overstate the total number of rounds played, and make the golf course seem busier than it actually was. You have to wonder: is that a bug or a feature?
The city recently spent a lot of money upgrading the golf course, based on the use figures supplied by Frazier and it still loses money.
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What kind of moron actually keeps *records* of doing something illegal?!
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Well, for years no one looked at the books, which is why all of these people are going down at the same time. Things are worse then they have even been, and this is forcing local officials to finally do a little oversight.
He needed a reasonable number to turn in with his budget requests, that’s why he had a computer.
It isn’t pretty.