VOLUME 53 | ISSUE 30
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Former Georgetown police marshal leaves scathing letter of resignation to town leaders BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
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Daniel Trechter of Manhattan, Kansas was selected as Georgetown police marshal in August. After just a couple of weeks on the job, he penned a letter of resignation to Police Judge Lynette Kelsey and members of the Board of Selectmen. “It is with an extremely heavy and tortured heart that I tender this letter of resignation as your chief of police effective immediately,” reads the opening of the letter from Trechter. “I came into this position optimistic and wideeyed with an open mind, heart, soul, and spirit. Unfortunately, over the last week my ‘dream come true’ became a nightmare.” In his 1,000-word resignation dated Oct. 12, Trechter described “significant failures in leadership at the town administrator level.” Trechter’s resignation forecast a coming storm of an administrative exodus in November. In November, the Georgetown Board of Selectmen accepted the resignations of Town Administrator Rick Keuroglian and Town Treasurer Mary Sims, who had been in the position for 23 years. Town Clerk Jennifer Yobski quit shortly thereafter. “It became an unhappy, unhealthy place to be,” Sims said in a Dec. 11 interview with the Courant about the job she loved for decades. Sims declined to go into specifics as to why she stepped down. In the letter of resignation, Trechter said board members informed him of the challenges of the marshal position he was taking over when accepting the job and the “ghosts of the past” such as Christian Glass that he would be subject to scrutiny for his predecessors. During his initial job interview, Trechter said the Board of Selectmen SEE GEORGETOWN PD, P5
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