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	<title>The North Coast News &#187; mayor bunkers</title>
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		<title>Mayor Bunkers resigns</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2010/02/08/mayor-bunkers-resigns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Dean Bunkers is resigning, effective Friday. Near the end of tonight&#8217;s city council meeting, he read a letter, stating: &#8220;This is my official notification of my plan to resign as mayor effective Feb. 12, 2010 . . .
&#8220;My decision is based solely on my health,&#8221; Bunkers said.
&#8220;I simply do not have the mental stamina [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Officer laid off</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2010/01/11/officer-laid-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Dean Bunkers announced tonight that, due to the three unions rejecting concessions requested by the city, an Ocean Shore police officer has received a layoff notice. He said that Paul Luck, on hearing of the layoff notice, quickly submitted a retirement letter, hoping the other position would be saved. Bunkers gave no indication that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pop quiz</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2009/12/08/pop-quiz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through the first 10 months of 2009, the payments to Mayor Dean Bunkers make him:
a) the highest-paid City employee
b) the second-highest paid City employee
c) the fifth-highest paid City employee
d) the tenth-highest paid City employee
e) both c) and d)
First correct answer gets a Prudential Real Estate Ocean Shores street map (soon to be a collector&#8217;s item).
Hint: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bunkers on 1450 AM &#8220;Coffee Talk&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2009/11/12/bunkers-on-1450-am-coffee-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He just said the layoff of the fire chief was &#8220;not performance related.&#8221; Also talking about &#8220;temporarily closing the Library and Interpretive Center,&#8221; citizen input on the budget cuts, Street LID, Roundabout.
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		<title>Fire Chief on administrative leave</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2009/11/11/fire-chief-on-administrative-leave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just received this, from Mayor Dean Bunkers:
Press Release November 11, 2009
Layoff:
On Tuesday, November 10, the Fire Chief of Ocean Shores was placed on administrative leave, with pay, pending further action by the Mayor.  The Mayor has advised Chief Jim Hodges of his intention to recommend to the city council that the position of Fire Chief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor&#8217;s Report</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2009/10/01/mayors-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who are not &#8220;members&#8221; of the Ocean Shores Community Club, and are not privy to their official monthly publication. (Not to brag, but as soon as we bought a house in Ocean Shores, we were &#8220;invited&#8221; to become members of this exclusive group! )
Mayor of Ocean Shores Report, Ocean Observer, October 2009
&#8220;Summer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mayor&#8217;s Powerpoint on EMS</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2009/09/15/the-mayors-powerpoint-on-ems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EMS Levy-2010 Final
Presented last night at City Council:
He didn&#8217;t say &#8220;vote yes on the levy&#8221; or &#8220;vote no on the levy,&#8221; but with the concluding slide leaves little doubt what Mayor Bunkers wants you to vote on the levy &#8220;lid lift&#8221; of 50 cents per thousand dollars assessed, to support EMS, on the November ballot:
&#8220;What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bumping</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2009/06/19/bumping/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2009/06/19/bumping/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sidenote to the proposed layoffs: City labor contracts for Public Works and clerical workers (not police officers and firefighters, who go purely by senioritiy) allow for &#8220;bumping,&#8221; where staffing reductions are involved. It&#8217;s a fairly complicated process, with the contract language here:bumping
Says Mayor Dean Bunkers: &#8220;Bumping is only addressed in the Public Works and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor, Teamsters meet</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2009/06/18/mayor-teamsters-meet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ocean Shores Mayor Dean Bunkers and Teamsters representative Russ Walpole met again Tuesday. With a rising deficit, Bunkers is looking to save upwards of $250,000 from the 2009 budget, and asking for concessions from the Teamsters 60 City employees. &#8220;I thought it was a very good discussion,&#8221; Bunkers said, Wednesday afternoon. &#8220;We agreed on two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One layoff notice rescinded</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2009/06/15/one-layoff-notice-rescinded/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2009/06/15/one-layoff-notice-rescinded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After sending out five layoff notices (one police officer, one library worker, a code enforcement/animal control officer, a library worker and a mechanic) early last week, Mayor Dean Bunkers sent a layoff notice to a second firefighter/EMS on Thursday. But, after negotiations with the union representing the firefighters, the second layoff notice has been rescinded, Bunkers [...]]]></description>
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