Recently, 4th ward Councilman Bob Bialkowski summoned a Dept. of Public Works employee, off his work site and off his job to talk about getting a new side walk in part of his ward.
This was not some council member double checking on how things are going in the Public Works by going over to see for himself. This was calling an employee off his job for a personal project he wants done.
Council’s new rules allow council members to talk with Department Heads without getting the City Managers ok. This was to prevent things from being hidden from them and us. There is a big difference in checking on how things are running, if there are problems and calling people out of their work areas for personal projects. City Charter does not allow this type of behavior either.
This personal project is not authorized by council, is not planned for and not funded. The city has to fix its current sidewalks before putting in new ones for Mr. Bialkowski.
Mr. Bialkowski didn’t even have the good manners to tell the City Manager he had called an employee off his job for this personal project.
Councilman Barone’s argument that anyone can call a city department and ask questions or ask for help is true only to a point. This was not calling about a pot hole, getting a tree trimmed or about illegally parked cars. This was only for a personal project Mr. Bialkowski wants done. If you, Joe Average, call a city worker, the employee has to check with his boss before he leaves work to go and see you because there might be something else that needs to be done first. But Bob Bialkowski is a councilman. He didn’t want to wait or go thru the normal process. He abused his power to do this and took an employee off his job for about 30 minutes, with travel time, to satisfy a personal whim. He abused his position and should repay the tax payer for the time the employee had to spend off his job.
John: If you can re-submit
John: If you can re-submit this post in a normal font size equal to all the posts on the homepage, we'll add it to the main page. Thanks for your contributions, and please be careful not to personally attack anyone. You have not really done that here. I only mention it for you to keep in mind.
Send me an e-mail or give me a call (802-3032) once you have it up. Thanks again.
—Philip
Recently, 4th ward
Recently, 4th ward Councilman Bob Bialkowski summoned a Dept. of Public Works employee, off his work site and off his job to talk about getting a new side walk in part of his ward.
This was not some council member double checking on how things are going in the Public Works by going over to see for himself. This was calling an employee off his job for a personal project he wants done.
Council’s new rules allow council members to talk with Department Heads without getting the City Managers ok. This was to prevent things from being hidden from them and us. There is a big difference in checking on how things are running, if there are problems and calling people out of their work areas for personal projects. City Charter does not allow this type of behavior either.
This personal project is not authorized by council, is not planned for and not funded. The city has to fix its current sidewalks before putting in new ones for Mr. Bialkowski.
Mr. Bialkowski didn’t even have the good manners to tell the City Manager he had called an employee off his job for this personal project.
Councilman Barone’s argument that anyone can call a city department and ask questions or ask for help is true only to a point. This was not calling about a pot hole, getting a tree trimmed or about illegally parked cars. This was only for a personal project Mr. Bialkowski wants done. If you, Joe Average, call a city worker, the employee has to check with his boss before he leaves work to go and see you because there might be something else that needs to be done first. But Bob Bialkowski is a councilman. He didn’t want to wait or go thru the normal process. He abused his power to do this and took an employee off his job for about 30 minutes, with travel time, to satisfy a personal whim. He abused his position and should repay the tax payer for the time the employee had to spend off his job.
I think I did what you
I think I did what you wanted. I hope it came out right.
Close ... but still not in a
Close ... but still not in a format we can consider for the home page ...
My guess is you originally wrote your post in MS Word, then copy and pasted to post to the site.
This preserved all the unwanted HTML word produces, so your post came out in big letters and not our standard font.
Try creating a new blog post is the best way start. If you want to cut and paste from word ... click the button that says "source" in the editor (upper left above all the other buttons). Paste then ... then click that "source" button again ... now you'll probably lose your paragraph breaks, so you'll need to go back and add them in.
Hope that helps.
It does.
It does.