Doing great

May 29, 2016

Checking up on how our former deputy city manager that was fired for telling the truth is doing as the city manager of Deltona Florida, I found this in the Monday, November 30, 2015 Daytona Beach News-Journal:

In her first six months as city manager, Jane Shang has brought progress to Deltona, which, in turn, brought praise from her bosses, the City Commission.

Shang has engaged Deltona in a beautification program, forwarded plans to construct a community center, arranged a community visioning session and begun evaluating her own staff. In an interview, Mayor John Masiarczyk said Shang is “doing great.”

And we allowed our former city manager to fire her for telling the truth.  I have to wonder how much more talent was run off.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Please explain

May 28, 2016

The story behind our former city chief financial officer being hired by EPISD on the exact day that she first became eligible is getting more troubling.

Looking at the district’s web site they list the job descriptions of employees.

There is no job position listed for a deputy superintendent of finance and operations.

Were other people interviewed for the job?

We deserve better

Brutus

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El Diario stands up for El Pasoans

May 27, 2016

This came in from Helen Marshall:

El DIario is calling for TxDot to reschedule the construction works on I-10 and Paisano to prevent another total collapse of westside traffic in the event of an accident.

http://diario.mx/El_Paso/2016-05-24_e296e02d/posponer-obras-si-faltan-suficientes-vias-alternas/

In the accompanying story it is noted that the paper tried to reach Peter Svarzbein, whose district includes the works, for comment but none was received.

http://diario.mx/El_Paso/2016-05-24_558b2129/pone-freno-a-el-paso-cierre-total-de-la-i_10/

*****end of note from Helen Marshall

For the Spanish challenged I include these two links:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdiario.mx%2FEl_Paso%2F2016-05-24_e296e02d%2Fposponer-obras-si-faltan-suficientes-vias-alternas%2F&edit-text=&act=url

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdiario.mx%2FEl_Paso%2F2016-05-24_558b2129%2Fpone-freno-a-el-paso-cierre-total-de-la-i_10%2F&edit-text=&act=url

 

 

 

 

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Giving up control

May 26, 2016

Item 22.2 on the Tuesday, May 17, 2016 regular city council agenda would allow the city manager to spend more than $500,000 at a time from the Region 19 buy board without taking the purchase to city council if passed.

No bidding, no fuss, no muss.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Back scratching

May 25, 2016

Our city council has told us that they only plan to meet every other week this year.

They met last week and are also met  this week on Tuesday, May 24, 2016.

There is one item on the agenda.  It is the second reading of a proposed ordinance that would “allow for temporary places of assembly on undeveloped lots and in the ranch and farm zoning district”.

This is being hurried through so that the El Paso Balloon Fest can be held Memorial Day weekend at a ranch in northeast El Paso.

I doubt that many of us have a problem with the event being held.

It is remarkable how regular citizens have to wait days, weeks, and months before the city allows a permit or some other normal action to go through.

In this case council is going to convene to make an exception.  It probably helps that the organization making the request is a local media outlet.  Maybe this is part of why our local media gives the city a pass so often.

We deserve better

Brutus

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