He came to the meeting with a prepared list of items that needed repair. Mr. Earlywine also stated that members of each team along with himself and other volunteers were prepared to supply Free Labor to the project if the city would help. Mr Earlywine had estimated the material for the needed repairs would cost about $4,000.00
Mayor Thornton told him that this was a pretty good gesture on the schools part to help out and he didn’t have a problem as long as there was money in the budget to help. City Manager Nagy replied he had money in the budget.
Mr Earlywine thanked them very much for their support. Mr. Earlywine stated they wanted to do the work during Spring Break in order to get it done for Tennis Season.
I was very pleased to hear about how our young people and adults were willing to volunteer there time to work on this project. I am sure all the people who enjoy playing tennis in Paris will greatly benefit from this.
Another item was communications. City Manager Nagy stated “that Assistant City Manager Matt Belcher plans for the future was that he is leaving the city at the middle of next month.”
It looks like to me this will leave yet another job opening the city will need to fill? But not so fast here John, later on in the meeting they started discussing the Finance Director position from past meetings they wanted to hire.
It seems now that City Manager Nagy’s recommendation is to do away with the Assistant City Manager position and replace it with a position titled- Finance/Billing Director. He also wants to hire a support person in addition to deal with H.R. issues and insurance issues.
The discussions that followed between city officials drummed up yet more disagreement between them in what to do? This time the mayor and 4 commissioners voted NO on Mr Nagys recommendation. They then decided to create yet another title-CFO/Utility Director and decided to advertise for this position!. The mayor and 4 commissioners all voted YES on this one.
I will add a comment about this position. Just like one of the many readers of this blog pointed out to me. We already pay the City Manager a Very Very High Salary. Shouldn’t this be part of his job already? Does he not have the financial background to keep the City of Paris Financials in proper order?
Another item was the 2nd reading of the weed/grass ordinance. In one of my previous post, I noted they tabled the issue until the City Attorney could review my recommendations. In this meeting the City Attorney stated, “I had some time to look at it, I don’t think we need to make those references.” There was some further discussing and then the mayor and all commissioners voted YES for the ordinance as the city attorney presented it.
Oh well I tried, Guess I will wait and see now if they ENFORCE the ordinance or I put up with 3 to 5 foot weeds again all summer.
One other item was the Fire Chief position. City Manager noted that Andy Roe has been the Interim Fire Chief now for several weeks since the retirement of the previous Fire Chief. He noted Mr Roe has dealt with the job very satisfactory and he recommended they install Mr Roe as the New Fire Chief. A vote was taken and all city officials voted YES for Mr Roe to become Fire Chief.
Until next time,
"We already pay the City Manager a Very Very High Salary. Shouldn’t this be part of his job already? Does he not have the financial background to keep the City of Paris Financials in proper order?"
ReplyDeleteSo why did they hire someone without a financial background. That doesn't make any sense to me. What exactly does he do then????
Your questions are good ones, but the mayor and city commissioners are his boss. They are the ones to answer these questions for you.
ReplyDeleteI can only say that what conversations I have had with him, he listens but you get very little action on the issues you talk about.