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AMHERST NEWS-TIMES • OBERLIN NEWS-TRIBUNE • WELLINGTON ENTERPRISE Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022
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Volume 9, Issue 48
Barfield retiring, McPike chosen as chief JASON HAWK EDITOR
WELLINGTON — Police Chief Tim Barfield is resigning effective Feb. 3. Village Council voted last week to hire his successor. In a letter to Mayor Hans Schneider late the afternoon of Monday, Nov. 21, Barfield said he will retire from his long career in law enforcement.
Following 31 years of service to the Maple Heights Police Department, he was hired as Wellington’s chief in 2014. “It has been an incredible honor and privilege to have served as the chief of the Wellington police,” he wrote. “Over the last eight years, I have fallen in love with this town and its people. I have worked hard to create a new culture and build a modern police department. With the current team in place and the changes
implemented, I feel comfortable passing the torch to the next chief.” Council President Gene Hartman said the decision Tim Barfield came as a surprise. When a special meeting was set, he didn’t expect to be accepting a resignation and making a new hire in the
same evening. During his tenure in Wellington, Barfield has won over residents, helped forge a deal to put secuJim McPike rity officers in schools and established the Local Initiative to Network Compassion program to help opioid users safely find help,
Hartman said. “We owe him a debt of gratitude for increasing the professionalism of the department,” he said. The resignation comes about a month after a tense meeting in which an angry Barfield sparred with Hartman and other Council members over staffing. The chief said he’s struggled to recruit and retain officers, with other departments offering more BARFIELD PAGE A3
Huge raises Lighting the village to offset pain of inflation JASON HAWK EDITOR
AMHERST — Staring down record inflation while also enjoying a surge in tax revenue, City Council agreed Monday to give its workers huge raises. Most Amherst employees with get pay increases of 8.25 percent in 2023, and 3.5 percent in both 2024 and 2025 under newly-minted contracts. Police dispatchers have an even sweeter deal, with wage hikes that work out to about 9 percent next year and 4 percent for each of the next two. The increases will cost taxpayers just shy of $600,000 next year, including fringe benefits and “me too” deals for non-union workers, said Mayor Mark Costilow. “Our employees are good. They’ve earned these wage increases. And with the times and the cost of everything, I think this is fair,” he said. The contracts were unanimously pushed through on their first reading tracked Monday by Council without comment. In committee discussion, however, Councilman Chuck Winiarski, R-at large, said his knee jerk reaction had been that the contracts would cost “an obscene number,” close to $1 million over three years. His opinion changed when considering the cost of losing employees to neighboring cities with higher pay, he said — recruiting replacement workers would cost vastly more. RAISES PAGE A2
Photos by Jeff Barnes | Amherst News-Times
After Thanksgiving, Santa and his elves come out! The big guy in red graced the Milan Avenue on Saturday night, during the Amherst Historical Society’s “Light Up the Village” party. The historical grounds were lit in charming holiday colors. Kids got to sit on Santa’s lap, eat hot chocolate and doughnuts and tour historical buildings. ABOVE: Jack, Emma, and Benny Mitchell of Amherst visited Santa Claus. BELOW LEFT: Chloe and Carter Hall of Amherst color and write letters to Santa with Mrs. Claus. BELOW RIGHT: Kay Beach gets up close and personal with Santa.
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