Palmer police chief reinstated

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Suzanne Downing
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Palmer’s police chief, fired by the now-former city manager, was reinstated on Tuesday.

Police Chief Dwayne Shelton was back at the office on Wednesday, after having been stripped of his badge by Stephen Jellie, who was then immediately forced out of his city manager’s job by the Palmer City Council.

Jellie, who was hired from outside the state, had only been in his position as city manager since August. The current interim city manager, John Diumenti, made the announcement about Shelton’s return during Tuesday night’s council meeting.

Some members are still unhappy with the severance agreement with Jellie and also want an investigation into supposed deleted emails from his computer. Cindy Hudgins of Palmer has started a recall petition to try to remove Mayor Carrington from office because he didn’t follow what she believes would have been the proper procedure for designing Jellie’s severance agreement. She said it was done outside of the open meetings process.

Hudgins led a successful recall against three members of the council in 2022.

Carrington was elected mayor in 2022 after running unopposed. In order to recall him, Hudgins will need to get the signatures of a number equal to 25% of people who voted in the last election on Oct. 1, which was 230.

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  2. It was epic when some on the Palmer City Council wanted to impose a mask mandate during Covid.
    We rebelled.
    Started a Recall Petition.
    Had a special election.
    And ran the covid control weirdos out of office – 3 of them.
    We definitely have some LibTards in Palmer – but, we have a lot of decent hard working Alaskans that demand to be governed by common sense based on people exercising their Freedom.
    The Palmer mayor needs to get it together – or he WILL BE next.

    • IMHO, the Palmer mayor needs to be fired. He allowed jellie fish to jump on board and thrash the system. He is allowing 9-1-1 services for the entire borough to be put in jeopardy. If the 9-1-1 system is solely owned and ran by the City of Wasilla Mayor Glenda Ledford, will we experience a Lahaina HI or Pleasant CA or Hurricane Helene/Milton event here in the valley with our alleged rino mayor saying to stand down? A 9-1-1 system serving the entire borough should be owned and ran by the Mat-Su Borough and not one of the cities within the borough.

      • To add to my comment: I was watching the Tuesday Oct. 29th Palmer City Council Mtg online. One of the council members was just starting to call out the Palmer Mayor for breaking some code and the online video all of a sudden got disconnected. That was interesting. Was the online meeting connection hacked at just the moment when the mayor was being questioned by the city council? It was interesting! Checked the archived version and it was complete. Palmer needs to fire its mayor, two of the council members and maybe even the clerk or whatever her title is that sits on the left side of the mayor. They need people that are not going to carry out Jellie’s agenda.

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