The fix at city hall
I've noticed that Fix City Hall advertisements have begun popping up on local blogs like the Sentinel and Chris Nolan's site.
These guys (you can check out their web site here) are presumably the shock troops for the Committee on Jobs' campaign to do away with civil service protections for city workers. As Robert said in March:
Yes, there are problems with city government. Anyone who's had significant dealings with it knows that the bureaucracy can be maddening, and not every city staffer is always helpful. The solution, however, is not to expose city workers to favoritism, cronyism, and political pressures. There is, I think, no easy solution, but any proposal needs to come with significant participation from city workers themselves, not as the result of some management consultant's report.
It is interesting, however, that these guys have decided to target local blogs. I'm not sure if it's a budgetary thing or whether they are intentionally targetting readers of the Sentinel and Nolan's site. I'd certainly be intersted to know whether there's a big difference between the number of people who sign their petition after clicking through from the Sentinel vs. Nolan's site.
These guys (you can check out their web site here) are presumably the shock troops for the Committee on Jobs' campaign to do away with civil service protections for city workers. As Robert said in March:
Their ultimate goal is to take away Civil Service protections. From a management perspective, these Civil Service protections may be cumbersome. From a labor perspective, we have fought hard to ensure that workers are not fired arbitrarily and that workers are promoted based on fairness, not cronyism.The web site seems to be their attempt at demonizing front-line city workers, in preparation for a ballot initiative.
Yes, there are problems with city government. Anyone who's had significant dealings with it knows that the bureaucracy can be maddening, and not every city staffer is always helpful. The solution, however, is not to expose city workers to favoritism, cronyism, and political pressures. There is, I think, no easy solution, but any proposal needs to come with significant participation from city workers themselves, not as the result of some management consultant's report.
It is interesting, however, that these guys have decided to target local blogs. I'm not sure if it's a budgetary thing or whether they are intentionally targetting readers of the Sentinel and Nolan's site. I'd certainly be intersted to know whether there's a big difference between the number of people who sign their petition after clicking through from the Sentinel vs. Nolan's site.
2 Comments:
The fix is in at City Hall...
would be a better name for these people.
It is too late for them to do a ballot initiative for this fall but they are not giving up hope yet to accomplish things around the edges.
Yes, they are too late for the ballot. But I think a high turnout election is bad news for them anyway. And this November election, which was going to be the standard sleepy off-year election for Treasurer and Assessor, will now be pretty raucus, given the state propositions.
Look for this proposition to pop up in June next year, is my guess.
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