MEMO TO THE COMMUNITY LMRFD May 29th 2020

MEMO TO THE COMMUNITY 

May 29, 2020 

As you are aware, the Governing Board of the Lake Mohave Ranchos Fire District voted 4-1 to terminate Fire Chief Bonnee for cause on May 8, 2020 at a specially-called meeting of the Fire Board. 

This has raised many questions in the community, and the Board has the following response.  

Chief Bonnee was not terminated for an alleged criminal incident that occurred on his personal time. The issue for the Fire Board was that the ex-Chief shared multiple completely inconsistent versions of what happened and why it happened with the investigating police agency, the community, and members of the Board, as well as agency staff. This dishonesty demonstrated that the Board could not rely on the Fire Chief to tell the truth. This was compounded by other additional prior proven instances of substantial omissions and misrepresentations by the ex-Chief, including but not limited to the following:

Dishonesty: January 16th and 17th Leadership Class –the ex-Chief allegedly attended this class and sought to be paid for attending it; it later developed that in fact he had not attended the class. He was asked to provide evidence of attendance, but failed to provide evidence to the Board of actual attendance at same; he later admitted that he did not attend the class.

Continue reading the LMRFD May 29th Board Minutes