According to this El Paso Times article at least five candidates for local office had trouble filing their required campaign reports Friday, May 8, 2013
The city clerk’s office is closed on Fridays like much of the city administration is. You might remember that the city started a four day week back when they were in the old city hall. Their stated reason was the energy efficiency to be gained from not operating the ten story building on Friday. Now that the city has spread out to multiple buildings I suppose there will have to be another justification from the city administration eventually. Public convenience certainly has suffered as evidenced by the troubles the candidates had.
The alternative was to file electronically. The city has a new computer system to do this. Evidently it did not work well. We can all see that happening with a new system, but would we would have hoped that the thing would have been tested more thoroughly before hand.
What I found troubling in the article was the attitude of the city’s IT (information technology) director. The article spoke of the comments of two of the candidates: “Both said the new system was inconvenient and troublesome and needed to be fixed.” The IT director evidently said “the system is being reviewed to ensure it’s more user-friendly, and he said there was a learning curve on the part of the users and the IT Department that created the program.”
In other words the candidates are ignorant and need to be trained.
I wrote in Phoney about the high salaries the city is paying — above the local pay scale. Then in Something is rotten in the state of Denmark I addressed another boondoggle from IT.
It would be nice to see the city stop blaming the public and start providing better service.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
Dream on, Brutus, dream on.
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Let me see if l understand this: we’re trying to be fiscally sound by “saving” a few pennies on electricity, while at the same time probably going 2 billion in the hole within a decade? Yep, the stupidity in this town continues to escalate.
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