No “Root Cause Analysis” Exists for City of St. Augustine’s Illegal Dumping – City Managers Misled the Public at the December 13 Lincolnville Meeting

No “Root Cause Analysis” Exists for City of St. Augustine’s Illegal Dumping – City Managers Misled the Public at the December 13, 2007 Meeting in Lincolnville

St. Augustine Assistant City Manager JOHN REGAN, P.E. told the Lincolnville Neighborhood Association’s December 13, 2007 “Stop the Dump[“ meeting that the City had performed a “root cause analysis” on its illegal dumping,.and why it happened, claiming that the City government had “reorganized” to prevent recurrences.

Well, there are no documents reflecting any root cause analysis. REGAN told me this morning that it was all done in City officials’ heads.

In the scientific communities, they call it “drylabbing” when laboratory results are reported that don’t exist. It can be a crime. It can result in loss of government grants and contracts.

In the engineering profession, at NASA and other installations, they call it “warm fuzzies” when vague assurances are given that something is safe. It has killed fourteen (14) astronauts on two (2) Space Shuttles.

If NASA told the American people it performed a root cause analysis for the explosion of one of its Space Shuttles, we’d demand Grand Jury investigations, resignations and firings if they had no documents on the putative “root cause analysis” and then said they did it “in their heads.”

That’s what happened here.

Is it worse than “drylabbing” or “warm fuzzies” to tell the people of St. Augustine that there has been a “root cause analysis” of how WILLIAM B. HARRISS’ regime committed a crime against nature when there was no “root cause analysis,” but merely thumb-sucking by minions, who know not that they know not that they know not?

City Manager WILLIAM B. HARRISS – will you kindly come to the meeting in Lincolnville tomorrow and explain yourself, instead of sending your subordinates to tell us about “root cause analysis” that does not exist, and other fables, flummery and dupery? WILLIAM B. HARRISS, you have the right to remain silent -- but we wish you wouldn't.