My understanding that Personnel Information is kept private and not shared with the public. Mr. Ramos made his medical conditions public himself through a Valley Voice article and at a public board meeting and who knows where else. My guess is that it will come out in his lawsuit IF he “requested reasonable accommodations” for his health issues. I’m still trying to wrap my head around this guy being given permission to live on cemetery grounds!

SMH…..Curious about your background. Have you ever served as a board member of any agency, public or private? How much personal experience in HR do you have? I’m thinking that you weren’t aware of Mr. Avila’s extensive background and experience in HR and of him serving on other boards, so perhaps that is why you believe that he doesn’t know what the heck he is doing. We all have a lot of questions on this particular matter for sure but there is no need to try and bury the messengers, ie Valley Voice or Mr. Ramos or Mr. Avila, etc. There will be an end of this saga sooner or later we hopefully will have all our questions answered.

Also it is perfectly within my duty to ask the office manager to research our records and for me to ask others involved at the time as what had happened. In other words I’m certainly authorized to look into this . Mr Ramos asked me too and like Catherine told you I did not make anything pubic . To answer your question . Yes country council was part of all this .

Well truth be told, it wasn’t really common knowledge that he lived at the cemetery, it became known to the majority of Tulareans once the news media published that information. I am still not sure “which” cemetery Mr. Ramos actually lived at and just who gave him permission to do so. I personally think that the paycheck matter should have been handled thru the Labor Board and if it wasn’t I am curious to know why it not.

More alarming is a board member with no HR experience performing an unauthorized investigation. If this were to lead to further litigation how do you justify the actions of a board member digging around in a personnel matter and making it public.

Was County Consel even consulted, these boards seem like such a liability to the County.