The Body Count at the County
When I'm wrong, I'm usually the first one to point it out and this is one of those times. Yesterday I wrote that if the Public Works Director was to be ousted at the County that it would be the third major loss of a department head.
My bad.
The body count is actually higher. Twice the amount I actually said if you count Piti Vasquez from purchasing.
I forgot Jim Fashing from the Domestic Relations Office and Peter Cooper from the IT department. Clara Hernandez recently retired from the Public Defenders Office as well. She was replaced by Jaime Gandara and with the exception of Gandara, all the new hires for the positions have one thing in common.
They are all from out of town.
Certainly as tax payers we deserve to have the very best talent available and we shouldn't feel bad about wanting the best talent we can get our hands on. Its the best use of tax-payer dollars.
But it is difficult to believe that we don't have local talent that can't be harvested as well. The process to replace the department heads is generally pretty transparent but its a disturbing trend. Especially when you consider that all the other department heads in county government are elected officials. So volatility in the ranks of the non-elected department heads is concerning.
All I know is that with a body count this high at the County there is something we could really use right about now.
A medical examiner.
My bad.
The body count is actually higher. Twice the amount I actually said if you count Piti Vasquez from purchasing.
I forgot Jim Fashing from the Domestic Relations Office and Peter Cooper from the IT department. Clara Hernandez recently retired from the Public Defenders Office as well. She was replaced by Jaime Gandara and with the exception of Gandara, all the new hires for the positions have one thing in common.
They are all from out of town.
Certainly as tax payers we deserve to have the very best talent available and we shouldn't feel bad about wanting the best talent we can get our hands on. Its the best use of tax-payer dollars.
But it is difficult to believe that we don't have local talent that can't be harvested as well. The process to replace the department heads is generally pretty transparent but its a disturbing trend. Especially when you consider that all the other department heads in county government are elected officials. So volatility in the ranks of the non-elected department heads is concerning.
All I know is that with a body count this high at the County there is something we could really use right about now.
A medical examiner.
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