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and unanimously carried, the following resolution was adopted :
'BE IT RESOLVED, that if charges of failure to properly per-
form their duties or charges of conduct detrimental to the best
interest of the Town be raised against any one of the police
officers , the said charge will be told at a meeting of the full
Council andthe officer in question be granted an opportunity to
speak and defend.himself. ' -
I hereby veto the foregoing resolution, and assign my reasons
and grounds therefore as follows :
(1) The aforesaid resolution puts in issue before public
the character and reputation of the.police officer in question,
and invites and encourages public criticism of Town employees.
(2) . It opens :the. door, for providing the same rights to all
employees of the Town,. and prohibits the discontinuance of the
services of Town employees without first inviting such employee
to contest action of ,the. Town in such case.
(3) To offer and. provide the opportunity for character
assassination in such a matter is inherently wrong.
(4) The matter ,of hiring and firing employees of the Town
should be an executive, and administrative as distinguished from
• a legislative matter. -
(5) ' To that require ,that employees of the Town to be hired
and fired by the legislative instead of the executive branch of
the Town would, -
(a) , be an irwsion of the executive branch of the
Town_Towgovernment by the legislative branch, and
II . . . .
(b) it woldiscourage worthy employees from seek-
ing Town employment.
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Very truly yours,
/S/ William W. Nickels
William W. Nickels
• Mayor"
SPECIAL May 5, 1954
At a Special Meeting of the Mayor and Council of the Town of Leesburg, in
Virginia, held in the Council Chamber on Wednesday, May 5, 1954 at 8:00 o'clock
P. .M., there .were present Emmerson H. James, 'and Frank Raflo Councilmen fiY8444l'
The purpose of the meeting was-t6-allow any citizen of the Town of Leesburg •
to.present their views.on the proposed budget for the fiscal year begining July
1,1954 and ending June .30, 1955.
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There being no.one present for the aforesaid meeting, and purpose, the meeting
was ad 'ourned. •
' P:ayor. Recorder.
REGULAR May 10, 1954
At a regular meeting of.the .Mayor.and .Council .of the Town of Leesburg, in
Virginia, held in the Council Chamber. on .Monday May, .10, .1954 at 7:30 o'clock
P. M., there were present William W. :Nickels, Mayor, .Horace M. Hallett, Recorder,
Reginald K. Gheen, Emmerson H. James, Maurice R. Lowenbach Jr; Frank Raflo, and
Morton Riddlelll Councilmen.
The minutes for the regular meeting for April 12, 1954, the special meet-
ings for April, 14, 1954, April, 20, 1954, April, 23, 1954, April 27, 1954 and
May 5, 1954, were read and upon motion of Morton Riddle, /111, seconded by Emmer-
son H. James, and unaminously carried the following resolution was adopted: