Residents press council about safety director vacancy, polygraph waiver and public records requests

Two residents used the City Council's public-comment period on Tuesday to press elected leaders about the city's vacant safety director position, to request records about a police promotion waiver, and to urge a quicker plan to address budget shortfalls tied to a recent failed safety levy.

Stephen Wilkinson of Kingston told council members he would make public-records requests directly to Council President Keller for a waiver that allowed Ken Fisher not to take a polygraph as part of his hiring and for any communications among several named officials from March 8, 2023, to May 1, 2023. "I would like to make a public records request for the waiver that Ken Fisher got to not take a polygraph and to be hired, who gave the waiver, and why it was given," Wilkinson said. He added he has outstanding public-records requests…