Today's the day

The Baldwin Park City Council is hosting a special closed session meeting tonight to interview candidates for the vacant police chief position.

If all things go as planned, council members are expected to narrow down about a handful of candidates to one final applicant they would like to hire.

When I talked to Chief Executive Officer Vijay Singhal earlier this week, he said it was possible the council would not be able to report anything out of closed session in order to protect the "privacy of the candidates." He said a final applicant would still need to go through background checks and negotiate a contract - and maybe they don't want their current employer to know they're gunning for the job.....

I'm sometimes really annoyed at the pangs of bureaucracy because of things like this.

I'll be at the meeting tonight, patiently waiting for it to be over so I can ask the million dollar question: so who do you want to be the next police chief? Let's hope they have an answer for me.