San Bernardino's PAL Program Disbanded?
Posted by: Joseph Turner | 08/28/2008 6:12 PM
About 18 months ago, the San Bernardino City Council voted to allocate $75,000 to San Bernardino Police Chief Mike Billdt to start a Police Activities League.
I heard through the grapevine that the Executive Director of the program James Frink was no longer leading the program. So, I submitted a public information request seeking information regarding his compensation and seeking information about Operation Phoenix disbursements.
Unfortunately, I was not given any information about program expenditures and only received Frink's contract and payment information.
According to the information I was provided, it appears that Frink became a contract employee with the City on February 4th, 2008 and his contract was terminated on July 2, 2008. During this period, Frink received $20,000 in compensation (for five months worth of work).
Apparently, nobody is leading the program. At least, I haven't seen any media coverage of the program and its continued existence.
So, what do taxpayers have to show for this program? From my understanding, a couple of field trips to amusement parks.
Some league...
This is why many sports ban the use of performance enhancing drugs. Another form of doping is blood...
On Thursday evening the McCain campaign posted this on their website then attempted to quickly remove it. Here is a link to the image http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/4746/romney1ccm8.jpg
The originally link has been removed from their website.
Check out CALPAL.org if you want info on how a PAL program should be run.