P. Thomas Shanahan, 56, who retired from the county Police Department in 2007, started working for the schools in October.
He is filling the position temporarily for $337.50 a day, the usual rate for substitutes at the coordinator level, said Maneka Monk, a county schools spokeswoman. How long he will stay has not yet been determined.
"Chief Shanahan was available, certainly qualified, and we thought he would be a great asset to the school system," said Bob Mosier, another...
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Hmmm? - 2009-12-13 09:21:26
Perhaps it's just me but doesn't it seem convenient that the former police chief, who's wife works directly for Mr Maxwell, (Superintendant of schools) gets a $88,000 a year county retirement job on top of his $85,000+ county pension? If I recall, Cheif Shanhan spent most of his career in administrative positions within the police department, none in an investigative capacity. How would that make him more qualified than almost any Detective that retired from any police agency? Perhaps it was the friendship with Janet Owens (running for County Exec again) or Mr Maxwell (who was given dozens of police officers under Chief Shanahan's watch to manage the school problems that the schools refuse to manage). This is the same Chief who repeately proclaimed that we didn't have a gang problem not long before we had a school related gang problem that took the life of a 14 year old in Crofton.
So where are your tax dollars going? To the same old "rub my back and I'll rub yours" politics that permeate Anne Arundel County government. No wonder we have problems
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