Does Lakewood Really Need a Full Time Finance Director?

[Bridget Conant]

They say if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bulls**t.

She does a good job of illustrating that.

[m buckley]

I don't think anyone with any kind of interest in the hospital deal has been able to work full-time at their regular jobs since sometime last year. When Council put off the referendum vote from March to November, that just prolonged the distraction and fostered more bad blood within the city. It caused a rift in our civic soul that will take a long time to heal. I don't think that gave the City any advantage in defeating the referendum that they didn't already have earlier this year.

That postponement was pure evil.

We need to vote "against" in the referendum if nothing else to send a message to the entrenched players that the old way of doing business is no longer acceptable to us.

Mr. Alaimo has hit it right on the head.
Sam O'Leary and the rest of the political opportunists that comprise City Council made a very cynical calculation when they pushed back the referendum vote from March to November. In concert with Mr. Summers and his "win at all cost" paradigm of governance, they chose to string the process out in the hopes of improving their chances. They thought only of themselves. They were willing to let Lakewood twist in the wind. They were willing to accept, as part of the price of politics in Lakewood, an intensification of the rancor and divisiveness that now plagues us.
To borrow from Mr. Alaimo, their actions "caused a rift in our civic soul that will take a long time to heal. The postponement was pure evil."

[Brian Essi]

I don't think anyone with any kind of interest in the hospital deal has been able to work full-time at their regular jobs since sometime last year. When Council put off the referendum vote from March to November, that just prolonged the distraction and fostered more bad blood within the city. It caused a rift in our civic soul that will take a long time to heal. I don't think that gave the City any advantage in defeating the referendum that they didn't already have earlier this year.

That postponement was pure evil.

We need to vote "against" in the referendum if nothing else to send a message to the entrenched players that the old way of doing business is no longer acceptable to us.

Mr. Alaimo has hit it right on the head.
Sam O'Leary and the rest of the political opportunists that comprise City Council made a very cynical calculation when they pushed back the referendum vote from March to November. In concert with Mr. Summers and his "win at all cost" paradigm of governance, they chose to string the process out in the hopes of improving their chances. They thought only of themselves. They were willing to let Lakewood twist in the wind. They were willing to accept, as part of the price of politics in Lakewood, an intensification of the rancor and divisiveness that now plagues us.
To borrow from Mr. Alaimo, their actions "caused a rift in our civic soul that will take a long time to heal. The postponement was pure evil."

Messrs. Alaimo and Buckley,

I agree.

The Lakewood insiders are a dumpster of deplorables.

[cameron karslake]

Citizen Brian Essi wrote:

"I agree.

The Lakewood insiders are a dumpster of deplorables."


Nice Brian...ouch!

[cmager]

The Lakewood insiders are a dumpster of deplorables.

Awesome. For branding purposes, I prefer the more formal "Dumpster of Deplorables"

[m buckley]

The Lakewood insiders are a dumpster of deplorables.

Mr. Essi, That's a walk-off description.

In accord with Mr. Mager and strictly for branding purposes, might I also suggest the more formal "Dumpster of Deplorables."

Just a thought.

[Stan Austin]

Back to the original question of the need for a full time Finance Director--- The position apparently requires competence in check writing and maintaining a ledger. It would seem that the current holder of the position has strayed into areas for which there are no demonstrated competencies.
Stan Austin