Based upon the documents admitted into evidence, the stipulated facts and the testimony of: 2 Called by the Town: Kathleen Costin, Assistant Town Accountant; Kathy Famulari, Town Treasurer; Frank Pappalardo, Firefighter and past Treasurer of local firefighters union;1 David Doyle, Firefighter (Senior Private); Mark Cullinan, Town Administrator; 2 Edward Hyde, Fire Chief;3 David Coleman, Former Vice President, Professional Firefighters of MA; Joshua
Falmouth v. Civil Service Commn, 447 Mass, 814, 823 (2006) and cases cited. However, [t]he commissions task...is not to be accomplished on a wholly blank slate.
Firefighters there have multiple daily interactions with the public. (Kelly, Tr. 105:20-24). 4. Sometime in early fall 2017, Lieutenant Kelly witnessed a loud verbal altercation between the Appellant and another, more senior firefighter, regarding the Appellants assignment to drive. The Appellant told Lieutenant Kelly that he would not drive that day despite being assigned to drive.
A tone test is a sound the dispatchers send over the radio to the firefighters pagers once a day to make sure that they are functioning properly. This same sound goes out to the firefighters pagers when they need to respond to an emergency. A tone test takes approximately five (5) seconds to complete. (Testimony of Cartabona) 6.
The WFC also terminated two other WFD firefighters, Kyle Miltimore and David Kennedy, for similar reasons. Boutin, Miltimore, and Kennedy appealed their terminations to the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission (CSC or Commission). After a seven-day evidentiary hearing, the CSC ' Massachusetts Civil Service Commission, 2?
Leary, Fire Chief, Weymouth Fire Department; For the Appellant: Kenneth Morehouse, Appellant; Paul Hammond, Captain, Weymouth Fire Department; Kevin Connelly, Firefighter, Weymouth Fire Department; I make the following findings of fact: 1. The Appellant has been employed as a firefighter with the Town of Weymouth since September 2003. He has no prior disciplinary record. (Testimony of Appellant) 2.
/officer who is a member of the bargaining unit, from call firefighter officers meetings; Excluded Full-time Firefighter Richard Velez from Fire Academy Training; and Expelled certain bargaining unit members from having lockers in the locker room.
Specifically, the above- named Employer has: e e -e e e Begun offering overtime hours to call firefighters before they are offered to any full-time, | permanent firefighters; Instituted new pay rules whereby firefighters are only paid in half-hour increments, rounding down to the nearest half-hour (see attached Exhibit A); Prohibited a nine-year past practice where employees who live off-island are picked up and dropped off at the ferry before and
Blake for two days for harassment, conduct unbecoming a firefighter and witness intimidation of a fellow lieutenant, Lt. Kelly Jones. (R. Exhibit 8; Testimony of Jones) 5. Lt. Jones, employed by the Department for 29 years (20 years as a firefighter and 9 years as a lieutenant), was scheduled to testify in a Section 41 hearing against former District Chief Marc Savage. Lt. Blake sought to discourage Lt. Jones from appearing at the hearing.
Blake is a member of the Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts (PFFM) Local 648 (the Union). 4. Although Lt. Blake has been very active in union business during his career with the SFD, he never served as an officer or as a member of the Executive Board of the local union until December 2013 when he was elected as the union President. (Testimony of Lt. Blake) 5.