- Chicago's Department of Streets and Sanitation will keep additional workers to fight rats and get more tree trimmers under Mayor Rahm Emanuel's 2013 budget.
The agency, with main responsibilities of clearing snow off the streets and collecting garbage from the alleys, is also getting a new commissioner, former deputy Police Supt. Charles Williams, the mayor’s office announced Saturday.
Charlie Williams? Long time readers of the blog will remember Williams spent most of his career fucking over coppers at IAD. If we remember correctly, he also told people after one scandal that if he could have sent an involved supervisor (who lived at one end of the city) farther from home than he did (to the other end of the city), he would have, even though the supervisor never faced charges - Charlie just wanted to fuck someone over.
This complete ineptness during his Police Department days translates into being able to run Streets and Sanitation how exactly? We can't see anything in his background that would justify his getting a police pension of some $100,000-plus in addition to a S&S Commissioner six-figure salary.
And if that isn't enough, you have this, too:
- Williams will replace Thomas Byrne, a Mayor Richard Daley appointee who has been asking out of the high pressure position at Streets and Sanitation since shortly after Emanuel took office.
“I'm just tired,” Byrne said. “I'm 64 years old, and winters are tough.”
Byrne will help Williams transition in, take some time off and then take over as head of security at the Chicago Park District.
Wow. One city job to another to another. How do the pension funds support these multiple dippers? It's amazing that it works out like this for the chosen few.