Dec 21, 2020
William G. Scribner
William G. Scribner was recently promoted to Chief of Police by the VA WNY Healthcare System.
Scribner went to work as a police officer with Batavia VA Medical Center in February 2016, Scribner was promoted to the deputy chief s post in August 2018 and his selection as Chief of Police was confirmed by U.S. Veterans Affairs on Dec. 4.
Scribner remains an adjunct instructor at the Law Enforcement Training Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, assisting development of and teaching its new Interview & Interrogation course.
Scribner has been in police work for more than 30 years. A decorated Air Force veteran, he served as a security policeman, trainer and criminal investigator from 1989 until 1994 and served a voluntary tour of duty in the southwest theater during Desert Storm in 1991. That same year, Scribner was named Law Enforcement Specialist of the Year at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, as well as the base s Airman of the Year a
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Leaders of both houses of Congress Sunday night signaled they averted further gridlock and struck a deal in providing $900 billion in additional coronavirus economic relief.
While the airline industry is the travel sector’s largest beneficiary from the potential deal, hotels are also on track to get their biggest aid request.
Exact details of the bill were still trickling in Sunday night, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell confirmed the deal on social media.
Congress reached a deal for $15 billion in additional payroll relief to the airline industry. While $10 billion less than requested, the package is as close to a so-called “clean extension” of the initial funds included in the relief measure from earlier this year as could be expected after more than two-months of wrangling in Washington.
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Congress inched closer Friday to striking a deal on another round of coronavirus economic relief, but one of the hotel industry’s requested provisions was left out.
Democrats and Republicans appeared ready this week to compromise on a roughly $900 billion coronavirus relief bill that would reopen the Paycheck Protection Program of government-backed small business loans, send a second round of direct payments to most Americans, and extend unemployment benefits.
While the hotel industry lobbied for further PPP funding since the initial program expired at the end of June, another one of its requests liability protection against coronavirus exposure claims is not expected to be included in the emerging deal. But hospitality lawyers say this isn’t a massive slight to the industry.
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