Stanley Hopes to Overcome $54K Loss in Future Budgets

 

Sheffield mayor Steve Stanley recently announced that the city's liability insurance premium increased by $53,982.00 for the 2025 budget year. He hopes to reel in costs in future years.

Why does Steve Stanley think he'll be around in future years?

Stanley lay the cost of the increase at the door of the police department, citing at least four lawsuits, plus the damage to city property involving reckless officers. He specifically mentioned replacing former Chief Ricky Terry and terminating Wes Holland and Kaegan Cook.

Holland was a long time Tuscumbia officer who had migrated to Sheffield in the past few years. Cook had been named in a recent 15 million dollar lawsuit filed by a Florence chiropractor and later accused of a second unknown infraction.

At least one of the four suits* facing Sheffield goes back five years. It seems that, as usual, it's too little too late from Steve Stanley. We have many readers in Sheffield, and each who contacts us mentions new leadership coming in 2025.

* We continue to see four suits against Sheffield listed in the press; however, we believe the actual number is five - three from black males, one from a white male, and one from a white female.

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