I don’t know if it has hit you yet but our city staff has really performed remarkably recently.
As it turns out the city chose to issue two Requests for Proposals (RFP) to remodel two of the buildings that city council just bought and that they plan to move city departments into post haste. The RFPs were both due on the same day.
I don’t know if you have ever had to have the city review and approve any construction related issues for your property. They can make a snail look speedy.
In this case though the city staff was able to plow through what must have been hundreds or thousands of pages of responses from potential vendors. These two projects are both multi-million dollar efforts and cannot be as simply as evaluating a new roof for a building that you will be tearing down soon.
Somehow they did it though. They had five raters evaluate each project (I don’t know if that was ten different people, or five bleary-eyed ones) and publish both sets of results within 8 days. That is remarkable. The original published schedules showed that they would evaluate both in just one day, but we all know that you can only do that with a ball park evaluation.
Now that they are done, are we going to turn these five super workers loose on the rest of the city? At the speed they work we should be able to lay off lots of dead wood.
We know that this is a sham.
We deserve better
Brutus
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