City Department Vacations
Saturday, October 21 2006 @ 08:03 AM MDT
Contributed by: Anonymous
Views: 10
Please investigate the following:
It appears that some specific budget related questions have been posed to one of our Council Members.
When this Councilor approached our City Manager with the question, he was told that getting the answer would difficult, as the Financial Director was out of the Country on vacation.
The question is quite obvious. How can we rely on only one man (the financial director) for some fairly basic information, and why is he on vacation, out of the country for what appears two weeks, right in the middle of a very tough budget and union contract negotiation period?
Again, this seems to fit the profile of lack of leadership and accountability on our City Administration and leadership.
Can someone please investigate this and connect the dots.
[the following response is reposted here exactly as posted on the original Eye on Oshkosh posting]
Authored by: Zoff B. on Saturday, October 21 2006 @ 01:45 PM MDT
This reminds me of another "vactation timing' issue which I posted on another site.....
Tom Stephany was defending his current budget when he mentioned that his department had many long serving employees who had a lot of vactaion time. He stated he HAD to have a lot of seasonal workers during the summer in order to cover all the vaction time taken by his full time employees. I used to work contruction in my youth, and construction is much like work at the parks department, the bulk of the work is during the warm months of the year. IF we had vacation time we weren't asked to take during the winter, we were TOLD to. We certainly could take a day or two during the summer but more than that and you better start looking for a new job during your time off. I've had relatives who have worked retail and they are not allowed to take vacation during November and December because that is their busy time of the year. I say limit parks workers vactaion time during their peak season to a minimum, run a skelton crew in January/February and let them take the bulk of their vactation then. If they want their summers off they should have become teachers instead of parks workers.
If Dick Wollangk was the coach of the Green Bay Packers, apparently all the players would get Sundays OFF. If he was Santa Claus, the elves would all get December off.
Contributed by: Anonymous
Views: 10
Please investigate the following:
It appears that some specific budget related questions have been posed to one of our Council Members.
When this Councilor approached our City Manager with the question, he was told that getting the answer would difficult, as the Financial Director was out of the Country on vacation.
The question is quite obvious. How can we rely on only one man (the financial director) for some fairly basic information, and why is he on vacation, out of the country for what appears two weeks, right in the middle of a very tough budget and union contract negotiation period?
Again, this seems to fit the profile of lack of leadership and accountability on our City Administration and leadership.
Can someone please investigate this and connect the dots.
[the following response is reposted here exactly as posted on the original Eye on Oshkosh posting]
Authored by: Zoff B. on Saturday, October 21 2006 @ 01:45 PM MDT
This reminds me of another "vactation timing' issue which I posted on another site.....
Tom Stephany was defending his current budget when he mentioned that his department had many long serving employees who had a lot of vactaion time. He stated he HAD to have a lot of seasonal workers during the summer in order to cover all the vaction time taken by his full time employees. I used to work contruction in my youth, and construction is much like work at the parks department, the bulk of the work is during the warm months of the year. IF we had vacation time we weren't asked to take during the winter, we were TOLD to. We certainly could take a day or two during the summer but more than that and you better start looking for a new job during your time off. I've had relatives who have worked retail and they are not allowed to take vacation during November and December because that is their busy time of the year. I say limit parks workers vactaion time during their peak season to a minimum, run a skelton crew in January/February and let them take the bulk of their vactation then. If they want their summers off they should have become teachers instead of parks workers.
If Dick Wollangk was the coach of the Green Bay Packers, apparently all the players would get Sundays OFF. If he was Santa Claus, the elves would all get December off.
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