Contra Costa fire chief Daryl Louder’s contract covers tuition and books for any work-related educational program of his choice. Still, the Contra Costa Times’ Lisa Vorderbrueggen says it came as a surprise to county supervisors that their chief was at Harvard for a three-week “Senior Executives in State and Local Government” program offered at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The price tag: $11,200.
Fallout: “This is bad timing,” says Supervisor John Gioia.” And how. Louder left on the eve of a union vote that includes $6.2 million in pay cuts for firefighters and dispatchers.
