Commish’s crony cleric: NYC’s first female, openly gay FDNY chaplain awarded huge promotion with $160K pay
New York Post | June 1, 2024 | Susan EdelmanFire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh has named a pastor with no clinical experience to run the FDNY’s counseling services for firefighters and medics struggling with mental-health problems — an appointment that will require the department to hire another licensed supervisor at taxpayer expense to plug the gap.
Kavanagh tapped Ann Kansfield, the FDNY’s first female and openly gay chaplain, as chief of the department’s Counseling Services Unit, which runs a staff of psychologists and therapists who conduct screening, assessment and treatment of job candidates and ailing first-responders.
Kansfield, 48, whom Kavanagh has called her “spiritual muse” — served as one of nine FDNY chaplains, last year collecting $39,809 in salary and overtime.
As CSU director, her salary will jump to $159,650, officials said.
Can I hire my spiritual muse — Mary Ann?
Don’t you see that her mere presence will be transformative for these troubled souls – think of all the money that will be saved because no one will need further mental health care…
….and no one will get mental health care, either!
We’re now in the era of healthScare.
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But the right boxes were checked so they got that going for them.
A lesbian pastor “with no clinical experience ” but she does have plenty of experience being batcrap crazy.