In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Blessed and Cursed
We're blessed to live here, but deserve better governments. St. Johns County is seemingly still run by energumen. While we love our new Mayor, our City upper staff is still stuck in the mud with poor attitudes and bad manners. Too little diversity, too little talent, too much anger at their past mismanagement having been exposed. Did they really think that putting a landfill in a lake was a good idea? Bad managers with bad customer relations skills: they do not reflect the expectations of the residents. Too willing to rubber-stamp developers' plans. Enough.
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How about using some of the 450th budget -- $1 million -- to send all upper-level staff for training in those very areas so that they will improve.
Not some swanky spa-like place, but a wilderness experience where they have to use their wits, cooperate, learn kindness to the lesser of the pack, etc., just to survive.
No BS. Several Marine sergeants will run it.
If the weeds continue to despoil the garden after that, yank them out and toss 'em.
Good comment. Two went for training at a swanky resort to avoid criminal penalties for illegally dumping a landfill in a lake. Why are such ethically challenged energumens always the snootiest? Their ego is writing checks their minds can't cash.
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