UPDATES:
8/31 -- The MCPL Board of Trustees responds to the Alternative's request for firearms policies and incidents. See MCPL gun policies.
8/29 -- The Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees accepted Director Cindy Gray's resignation at its budget meeting on Wednesday.
A gun deal in the library sealed Monroe County Public Library (MCPL) Director Cindy Gray’s fate.
The MCPL Board of Directors will announce Gray’s future with the public institution at a meeting tonight. Board members will do so after having received an allegation that she sold a handgun to a library staffer in the public building.
Gray allegedly brought the licensed handgun into the facility on two occasions – once to show it to the employee and again to make the sale.
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Library's policy regarding guns
Reader
This is a correction for Mr. Higgs' original article. The MCPL personnel manual which does address employee conduct clearly states that some infractions are serious enough for immediate termination of employment. One of the said infractions is "possessing firearms or other tools believed to be intended for use in an act of violence."
Was the sale a setup?
Mark being a former IU officer and Security Manager at MCPL knew the sale would give him leverage in the future and waited (8 month delay) until the pressure was on and then threw more fuel to the fire. The sale of a firearm takes 2. Am I to assume that Mark will be dismissed as well for his part in the transaction? If not, what is the rationale to single out one?
Why Now? Answer
Here is the reason why it’s being brought up now.
8/17/07 Cindy Grey had a meeting with Mark regarding complaints about him and his job performance. At that meeting she informed him that things needed to change or else.
The following week Mark met with Michael White. Michael White then went to the board with Mark’s allegations.
The truth needs to be told
This information needs to be posted on the HT. I don't have an account there, so if someone does please post it. The truth need to be told.
best check your facts
As a person who knew Mark long before he worked at the library, you'd best check your own facts and stop slandering a good person.
Mark was a full time police officer. I was told he wasn't the one who filed a complaint about the gun sale, and I was told that by the person who did file the complaint.
The board did its investigation and made its decision. Now the staff needs to move on.
--free speech advocate
he went to Michael White.
he went to Michael White. Then Micheal went to the board. You or Anyone of public can follow up on this issue with the other two employees that wanted the gun. According to the two other employees, Mark made it very clear to them that he wanted it. He also thought by buying the gun would help improve his relationship with Cindy. Don't know why but that is a comment he made.
The board did no investigation, they made their decision last week.
The truth needs to be told.
Mark lied and made false
Mark lied and made false allegations. He need to go
The gun deal happened 8mo
The gun deal happened 8mo ago and now Mark wants to complain that he was intimidated by Cindy to buy the gun off her. This is outright lie. There were two other employees that wanted the gun and Mark knew it and as soon as she brought it in he went up and bought it so they wouldn't have a chance to.
Mark has made several comments in the past couple of months that "he will stop at nothing to protect his job and he means nothing. He has 6 years left until he can retire". He made these comments because Cindy promoted two employees in his dept to supervisor position. He felt threaten by this move and made it clear several times.
In his own words "he will stop at nothing to protect his job." Who is next?
The Next to Go
I personally hope the next to go are the MCPL staff members who use half-truths and misinformation to promote their personal vendettas and professional ambitions on newspaper blogs. Take your complaints to the Board and the library lawyers and let them do their jobs. And let the MCPL staff do their jobs without the pointless turmoil that comes from your mud-slinging.
it sounds like to me you're
it sounds like to me you're talking about Phil Eskew. http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2007/06/05/news.qp-4220465.sto
why is ok for one but not for the other?
Signing Off
"Jason",
Your games are tedious and hurt the Library and individual staff members. Instead of following protocol for complaints, you just grasp for another name to drag through the mud. Refer to my original post for my reply to your future posts.
FYI
This information was sent to the board on Tuesday. I didn't know pointing out facts or sharing the other side to a story, would be consider dragging somone though the mud. I guess that would be a remark used when you don't want to hear the other side.