According to sources, having learned on July 27, 2020 of her imminent shit-canning, Kelly Rice knew what she had to do.
“The mayor has been bullying people since 2016,” is one source’s memory of Rice’s mindset at the time.
“She said, ‘I’ve gotta try to help the staff to get this craziness, like we’ve gotta try to fix this craziness cuz you people are gonna be driven lunatics if this keeps on going on’.”
Sources say Rice sat down with four municipal colleagues and brainstormed. In the room was the town’s director of engineering and public works Dave Bell; finance director Debra Crowell; Beverly Gentleman (dir of planning and development); and community and economic development co-ordinator Lindsay Young.
“We’ll try to get help from Municipal Affairs,” was the thinking at the time.
“We’ll write this down, surely to god Municipal Affairs will do something about this.”
You might know by now that municipal affairs did not, in fact, do something about this.
Rice hit send on her infamous letter late in the afternoon on Thursday, July 30, 2020. Her employment with the town of Kentville was over before noon on Friday.
Why can’t we be friends?
If Sandra Snow has been something of a tyrant from the beginning, post-Rice letter, she’s morphed into a tyrant with hurt feelings, which is hardly an improvement.
“She can be hot and cold. But a lot of the time she’s hot. But after this Kelly Rice stuff, the woman completely ignored the staff. One hundred per cent. Basically slunk by us. I’d say hello to her and she’d kinda look like I’d slapped her in the face. She changed completely,” says one insider.
“(In the beginning) we didn’t want a relationship with her, but she kind of elbowed her way into our world. She wanted to be at every birthday party for staff, every party for staff. We didn’t want her there, but whaddaya do, say, ‘Go away’? Anyway, I got the impression that she looked at us as her friends. And that’s not the relationship that we’ve ever had with any mayor. It’s just a business relationship, not a friendship type thing… (But) it kind of seemed like that’s the kind of relationship she thought she had with staff. Anyway, since this Rice letter she’s been, she’s said to people outside that she has to bite her tongue every time she walks into the building, she wants to tell people off so badly. She called us disloyal. We’re not disloyal. We work for the citizens of the town. But whoever sits in that chair, they come and they go.”...
The wrath of Sandra
https://www.frankmagazine.ca/single-post/the-wrath-of-sandra
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