GREENWOOD TWP- The Greenwood Fire Department is facing an apparent revolt from members unhappy about changes in the department’s leadership made by the town board late last year. Ten members of …
Chief and assistant chief allegedly used their positions to wage politics Posted Sunday, March 7, 2021 3:51 pm The immediate thing I felt was that we’re all here as employees to go over fire department business. Why were they telling us who we should be voting for?”” Firefighter Jeff Maus
Marshall Helmberger
GREENWOOD TWP The fire chief and assistant fire chief here are facing official complaints over allegations they may have violated a state law that prohibits public employees and officials from using their authority to pressure or compel others to engage in political activity.
On March 2, with a hotly contested township election just one week away, the Greenwood Fire Department’s top two officers used a fire department business meeting to weigh in on one side of the political fued that has consumed the township for the past several years. Fire chief David Fazio, who was not present at the meeting, had provided an agenda for ass