Our strategic thinkers are scheduled to ask city council for approval to change some of our city statements at the December 10, 2013 meeting of council.
Self promoting
The city’s current vision statement is “To be a high-performance, customer-focused organization.”
The proposal will be to change the vision statement to “The City of El Paso is a high-performance, customer-focused organization”.
Evidently they think that if you say something often enough it becomes true. I would think that if they were customer focused they would have included some citizens in the feedback process.
Less community
They want to change the city government’s mission statement from “Dedicated to outstanding customer services for a better community” to “Dedicated to providing outstanding customer services for a better El Paso”.
This change goes right over my head. I don’t understand what they are trying to say. Why drop community and replace it with El Paso? Hopefully the blog readers will be able to explain it.
Cost be damned
They propose changing the statement of core values to:
We value:
- Excellence
- Integrity
- Respect
- Accountability
- Our People
I think it would be nice if they included cost effectiveness, but then again they aren’t paying the bills.
New direction
Thankfully they do include this statement in their presentation for council and the public:
We will ensure continued financial stability and accountability through sound financial management, budgeting and reporting.
Maybe this way we can avoid having a promised $30 million move of city departments that has cost us more than $70 million so far, or having to spend an extra $17 million because of a failed bond issuance, or maybe we could actually build a ball park for what city staff told us it would cost.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
Speaking of the ballpark……………….
Why have there been so few updates about ballpark construction in the news lately? The silence is deafening.
Check out the stadium cam http://home.elpasotexas.gov/stadium-cam/ and you’ll understand why the Chiquitas took the option for one more year on the stadium lease in Tucson.
Ask yourself this question: did two billionaires who also own construction companies really truly think that this stadium could be completed in time for the 2014 season opener, or was that an artificial deadline which was used simply to cut taxpayers out of the process.
A longer completion schedule will also mean higher costs.
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Obviously, transparency is not a value here. Convenient.
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Personally, I look forward to the “High Performance” garbage collection and “High Performance” Senior Citizen Centers! Wellington Chew on Nitro!!! Go Go Go!
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l must have taken a VERY long nap, because when l awoke from my deep slumber, l was pleasantly surprised to learn that E P has unequivocally solved all of her problems! l mean, in order for the city’s politicos to focus on such a trivial issue as this, l’m naturally assuming that we’ve paid off our huge debt, the roads are repaired, we have synchronized traffic lights, government offices that are open 5 days a week, the stadium will be ready for opening day and Christmas lights in the lower valley for the kiddies to enjoy. And all of this happened in the 90 minutes that l’ve zonked-out. What a city!
BTW- “The City of E P is a high-performance, customer-focused oganization.” What? This sounds like a fast-food restaurant slogan. lf that’s the case, l want to see the manager. l think my city (organization?) has been under the heat lamp a little too long.
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Give me an incompetent government i can TRUST over one that is competent but sleazy. I’d settle for transparency and
honesty, two virtues absent in the Hunt-Wilson administration.
We still haven ‘t heard the full story of how the stadium bomb was planned for dropping on us. Nor have we received an updated business plan with 5-year tax impact from the CFO. They’re still running with the numbers they got from the stadium pimp – and believed.
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