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Proceedings of July 17, 1959 City of Paducah Board of Commissioners
At a Called Meeting of the Board of Commissioners held in the Commission
Chamber of the City Hall, Paducah, Kentucky, at 4:00 o'clock P.M. on July 17, 1959,
Mayor Jacobs presided and upon call of the Roll the following answered to their names:
Commissioners Fairhurst, Fendley, Gholson, Hook and Mayor Jacobs (5).
The meeting was for the purpose of hearing charges preferred by Rulie Elliott
against Johnny Herbert.
Commissioner Gholson offered motion that the return of Captain Robert Holt, sh w-
ing the copy of charges preferred against Johnny Herbert by Rulie Elliott, Chief of
notice of
hearing �! the Police Force of Paducah, and a copy of the Notice of the hearing set for trial
served on
J Herbert on July 17th, 1959 at 4:00 o'clock P.M., be received and filed. Adopted on call
of the roll, Yeas, Commissioners Fairhurst, Fendley, Gholson, Hook and Mayor Jacobs
(5). I
Commissioner Gholson offered the following motion:
Judgment
I move that the Board of Commissioners adopt the following and attached
findings of fact and judgment upon charges preferred by Rulie Elliott, Chief of Police
against Johnny Herbert:
"The Mayor and Board of Commissioners having heard the evidence upon charges
i preferred against the defendant, Johnny Herbert, by Rulie Elliott, Chief of Police,
and being sufficiently advised that the defendant has been guilty of violating Rules
17 and 21 of an ordinance adopted by the Board of Commissioners on January 7, 1947,
which rules read as follows:
1117. Being tardy or absent from any roll call or loitering unnecessarily
at police headquarters.
1121. Being absent from duty without proper permission. Police officers
shall have permits from the Chief of Police or their superior officer
temporarily on duty for any absence from their regular post or assign-
ment, and no officer shall be off duty without permission property
granted to him, and any officer who shall absent himself from duty
tirithout such permission shall forfeit his pay during the period of
such absence and be dismissed from service.
"It is therefore the judgment of the Board of Commissioners that the defendant
Johnny Herbert, be, and he is hereby demoted from the rank of Sergeant in the Police
Department of the City of Paducah, Kentucky to that of a patrolman, effective immed-
iately, and that he is hereby suspended from duty in such police department for a
period of 90 days, said suspension to be without pay and effective immediately.
Adopted on call of the Roll, Yeas, Commissioners Fairhurst, Fendley, Gholson, Hook an(
Mayor Jacobs (5).
On motion the meeting adjourned.
ADOPTED July 2$ 1959
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