go phil . i know you'll win, they violated your due process & they're wasting so much money instead of doing the right thing. think of all the things that money could be doing for dormont. new trash cans, benches, siangage in the business district, the entire business district, a new police car, etc... stay strong & know we're behind you 100%. hopefully this will all get cleared up and you'll be back where you belong in january :D

Indeed Cassie, indeed. This course of action is long overdue. Phil, I have told you privately many times and I will tell you here publicly, my family and I fully support you. I look forward to you being restored to your rightful position, that of CHIEF OF POLICE of Dormont. I also hope you get every dime coming to you. You and your family have been through far too much and you deserve rightful compensation. Justice for this travesty will finally be served.

Sad it had to come to this. However, I believe the Defendants are guilty as sin. They should have to write him a personal check.

Bravo Chief Ross! You have earned great respect from the residents over the many years that you have served in Dormont. I believe that this corruption that has grown over the years within this borough would never had happened if you would have been the chief for the past twenty five years. Dormont it is now your job to make sure that none of the seats on council and filled with the same members who have let Dormont down! Change is needed and needed now. Can't wait for the day that the residents are the priority and not the personal agendas of some of these current council members. You need to clean out the stagnant negativity and change the future of Dormont.

It's almost time to vote out those who did this! Get out and vote!

Gino got his way.......again! He really is the chief now.

i would like to know how gregg got the job as asst manager? was it voted on? was there no other person who wanted job? i saw the critria that they wanted & you had to have 2 get the job & i dont think gregg fits that. he's a nice guy but i'm just saying huh?? i'm just wondering because when the current council gets booted out in january and a new change is comming will he be in charge? how is he going to help fix this mess? i know pa is an at will state and that could be part of the problem that caused phil all this heartache but come on if we have someone in charge who isnt qualifiled to be there wont we have the same issusses? how can good change happen if we dont have the right people in the jobs in the first place? putting phil back where he belongs is a start. stop wasting money is the second thing. improving the entire business district and making dormont a place where people want to stop should be the third but only time will tell. i hope everything can get worked out and we can all start to get along. go team phil...

change is a good thing but what dormont is lacking is RESPECT and without that how can we move on? RESPECT for the service that our public safety people provide (even if you dont think they desreve it, they do) RESPECT for our residents. RESPECT for how dormont looks (would you throw trash on you own lilvingroom floor?) RESPECT for the business (we choose to be here & our voice should be heard). and just plain RESPECT for our fellow man. a kind word, a helping hand, a smile for someone whos down, a lets see how we can fix this for the better not what will personally help me. and that my friends is what will fix dormont if we can achive it. RESPECT

Cassandra....IS Greg the assistant manager? Is that a fact?

Councilman Lehman...could you please clarify what Greg Salisbury's position is currently in the Borough? Thank you!

Personal issue? Drew there is a reason that your not going to be part of council very soon. When a woman dials 911 because she was assaulted and the officer who shows up goes out of his way to write multiple discrepancies on a police report....it's Dormonts problem! When an acting chief refuses to inspect a false name on a police report even after It's been confirmed that the name is fraudulent and insists that it's the INS who should investigate.....It is Dormonts problem. Then when a sexual assault also happens at the same place it is kept quiet? Really? I wonder how many residents have had their serious Dormont issues pushed under the carpet because they were told the it is a "Personal issue".

I think that a new rule for council should be that " freebees and special discounts" from local businesses to council members and police needs to be stopped. This is also causing problems among the businesses. It's a type of favoritism that isn't helping the community to come together.

Drew....is it not a personal matter when the council refuses to enforce it's own occupancy laws in order to throw big events to gain donations for their non profit groups that either the council member or it's spouse is on?

Phil, Jim, Ralph, Bill, Joe, Tom, and the late Bill Ivill, along with Russ, Gus, Gary, and others now retired, were instrumental in keeping my two sons in line, without fanfare. I'm absolutely certain that without voluntarily taking on the role of guidance counselors, lots of youngsters in Dormont would have had a chance to see the inside of Shuman. And what does the thin blue line get in return? Not much more than a good feeling of a job well done, and the belated gratitude of parents of kids who are now in their 40's. So, rather than have a dedicated police force, fairly happy with their jobs, lets overlook decades of service and just beat them into submission over some or another silliness. While we're at it, call out the stone carver, because I think there may be some names of victors chiseled onto the facade of the boro building. And, at the end of the day, who pays for all of this? Arrogance, ego, shortsightedness; they all have a price tag. I'm glad my tax dollars aren't going to pay for this lunacy, but at the same time, one would think the Boro's attornies are even now preparing a settlement. Good Lord, they can't possibly let this get in front of a jury. No-one can possibly see any good coming from a jury trial in a civil matter, where only 51% of the evidence supports the plaintiff.

drew, i never said gregg was the new asst manager i asked if he was because he's doing the job and dont tell me he's not. did any one listen to the last reverse 911 call the other day about street sweeping that wasnt ian or gino's voice. so again why would he be doing a job that he wasnt hired for unless hes got it thru the back door so to speak? and drew i would never say dont listen to some 1 or you dont know what they r talking about. i would never do that 2 any1. again shouldn't you try 2 be making friends so close to election? all im saying is some things just arent adding up. & remember my early post what about RESPECT?

Drew, the council has been blowing this situation off since the beginning. You and your running mate are fully aware. Has anyone noticed the Gino doesn't respond via email. No, he kindly requests your phone number to avoid having anything on paper. Your ignorance has allowed the residents of Dormont to hand their credit cards to specific illegal aliens working in a Dormont restaurant who have fraudulent id to begin with. Believe it or not....it is your job to have the resident's safety first. There has been postings on the Police bulletin in the past re: id theft.

It is the borough's job to enforce the plumbing occupancy limit. I have requested that you do so four years in a row. Instead you and a couple of council members would rather cram three times the occupancy into a business in order to receive donations for non profit organizations to benefit on a personal level. This is on going and illegal. You refuse to enforce that law constantly. The integrity of some of these council people is an easy buy in Dormont. Im done with going back and forth with you. : ) Dormont spoke when they voted last May, get over it!

Sorry patch land I may have worded my post wrong stating how did Greg get the job... but did I really? I never meant for it to come across as council did hire him (all though you never know with all the back room decisions made that we don’t know about, like filling for an appeal without an public vote against Phil (how many sunshine laws were broken there)) I was only asking if they did because he is doing the job. Of course the big picture is being over looked... why is he even doing anything that’s not relating to the rec position? Can him helping be really that or is letting him help opening up another can of worms that the boro really can’t afford right now. I mean council spent months rewording the employee handbook so every position has a description so you could take action against them if they didn’t do said description, but you take on the liability of letting someone do a job they weren’t hired for? Clean up one mess before you create another. From what I’ve read the biggest mess you created is coming back to bite you in a huge way. Don't you think fixing this should be your number one priory? This council has done good yes, but with good comes bad and this council has created way too much of the latter. :D

Legal Defense for Dummies.

Simple steps to follow if you are named as a defendant in a law suit.

1. Keep your mouth shut.
2. Seek competent legal counsel.
3. Keep your mouth shut.
4. Always be “unavailable for comment”.
5. Keep your mouth shut.
6. Learn the words “no comment”.
7. Keep your mouth shut.
8. If you must comment, see step 6.
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http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19940614&id=8NpRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nG8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=1426,8176577 This is not the first time.. lol Phil I hope you cost all of them their jobs. Seriously Dormont is more corrupt than the residents lodging in side the ACJ. There are a few more instances of lawsuits against Dormont, I just am having a hard time remembering the dates due to the lack of internet back when things happened. The corrupt member of council are the ones bankrupting Dormont as well as the Lack of a tax collector who should chase down non tax paying residents.

I think a lien list and foreclosure list on the Borough web site would be great! The only problem is it would be outdated and useless like so many other things on the Borough web site.