The City of Pharr has named Leonardo “Lenny” Perez as its new fire chief effective Nov. 2, 2015.
And firefighters in Brownsville are saying "good riddance" to Looney Lenny.
A firefighter for the last 30 years, Perez is the current fire chief for the City of Brownsville where he has served in that capacity since 2001. He takes over from former Pharr fire chief Jaime Guzman who recently retired after serving 25 years with the city.
“My approach is to be as transparent as possible and help the community," Perez told the city. "I will continue to do fire prevention outreach. I will evaluate our weak spots and hopefully improve on them, and see where we can bring in additional revenue to the city to help with expenses for services.”
Perez has been Brownsville’s fire chief since Dec. 2001. He began his work with the fire department as a firefighter in 1985, and steadily moved up the brown-nosing chain as he went and climbed the ranks over more deserving candidates. A such, he moved from firefighter to instructor, pump operator, lieutenant, captain, assistant fire chief, and finally interim fire chief in August 2001.
His crowning moment came when he elbowed out the heroes of the Queen Isabella Causeway collapse and kept them away from city hall so he could receive the Congressional recognition for their heroic acts.
Over the years, Perez has been a strong opponent to the Firefighters Association, often engaging in disciplinary strategies that have cost the city millions. The latest was the failure of the city to observe the "me too" clause contract between the city and the fire and police departments. That resulted in the city having to pay both the police and firefighters a total of some $2.2 million.
Perez exemplifies what can be done with a minimal education and insider politics.
A firefighter for the last 30 years, Perez is the current fire chief for the City of Brownsville where he has served in that capacity since 2001. He takes over from former Pharr fire chief Jaime Guzman who recently retired after serving 25 years with the city.
“My approach is to be as transparent as possible and help the community," Perez told the city. "I will continue to do fire prevention outreach. I will evaluate our weak spots and hopefully improve on them, and see where we can bring in additional revenue to the city to help with expenses for services.”
Perez has been Brownsville’s fire chief since Dec. 2001. He began his work with the fire department as a firefighter in 1985, and steadily moved up the brown-nosing chain as he went and climbed the ranks over more deserving candidates. A such, he moved from firefighter to instructor, pump operator, lieutenant, captain, assistant fire chief, and finally interim fire chief in August 2001.
His crowning moment came when he elbowed out the heroes of the Queen Isabella Causeway collapse and kept them away from city hall so he could receive the Congressional recognition for their heroic acts.
Over the years, Perez has been a strong opponent to the Firefighters Association, often engaging in disciplinary strategies that have cost the city millions. The latest was the failure of the city to observe the "me too" clause contract between the city and the fire and police departments. That resulted in the city having to pay both the police and firefighters a total of some $2.2 million.
And Perez's intransigence on disciplinary methods have also resulted in mounting legal fees when the firefighters appealed the arbitrary punishments applied to them bu the chief. Lawyers love him.
Perez exemplifies what can be done with a minimal education and insider politics.
He has an Associates of Applied Science degree in fire science from Texas Southmost College,
“Education is huge," he said. "This means education for our firefighters so they can understand why we do the things we do. It includes more training and all the different expertise we have to look into. Most importantly, it means more unity with the rest of the fire departments near Pharr because they always help us, and we need to be ready to help them also."
“Education is huge," he said. "This means education for our firefighters so they can understand why we do the things we do. It includes more training and all the different expertise we have to look into. Most importantly, it means more unity with the rest of the fire departments near Pharr because they always help us, and we need to be ready to help them also."
11 comments:
Man I feel really sorry for the guys in Pharr,if he could only take the rest of the brown nosing team with him.the likes of LA loca,loony tunes Garza,manitas, Avilas ,Q ,Larry hairy ,the walrus etc.
Man I feel really sorry for the guys in Pharr,if he could only take the rest of the brown nosing team with him.the likes of LA loca,loony tunes Garza,manitas, Avilas ,Q ,Larry hairy ,the walrus etc.
There are cases where other valley cities gets our best employees like in McAllen but this ain't one of those cases.
Pharr must be desperate to hire a pendejo. They know full well that he was written off by his own firefighters with a letter of no confidence and they still hired his dumb ass. La basura goes outside.
Can we really say "Pharr Phire" Department. Lenny, who looks like Guillermo on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, is a loser and Pharr cannot expect him to be there long.
chicken WITHOUT A HEAD MEMMER YOU MEMMER
Lenny is a replica of Juan "El Pervert" Guerra, one of the many directors of the Public Library. People that sue the library always win thanks to the stupidity of this pendejo.
Please don't tell me that Carlos Elizondo is gonna ask his buddy's in the Brownsville commissioner's to give him that position, that would be a big mistake
They should give it to" the tin man" Mario
Don't forget the biggest suckass brown noser to come out of San Benito Jim" hey sucker " dam dude have some integrity for yourself mamon
We can only ponder the real reason that he has retired here and is off to Pharr. Lenny is a leach on the public.....here or in Pharr.
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