I am not acclimated to the use of the new initialed names for the Public Works Dept. and continue to just call this the Public Works Department with which I am more comfortable.
This is the last interview with Jeff King, the asst. manager, bldg inspector, fire chief.
Minutes removed by the city and will be available in 2 weeks and I will repost. Someone put them on before approval.
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In what area of responsibility is Jeff King a assistant manager? To have formal interviews with Mr. Bernabei and Mr. King enables them to have a jump start in the selection of the position if they want it. Are other city employees being interviewed and will their supervisors have to be present to serve and protect?
9:56, do you really think that other employees would add anything other than everything is going great? This process is designed for one outcome - approve the position of "City Administrator" aka Boss Harl Yes Man. Since Peru likes initials now, the position can be called BHYM.
Who that person will be nobody knows except Boss Harl.
What a shocking surprise that Jeff King would echo the same testimony of Doug Bernabei extolling the tremendous job they both are doing for us ignorant citizens of Peru. Who would have ever guessed that King's testimony would describe a city that is running so great there is nothing that can be done any better. Wow, what a surprise. Just like Bernabei stated last meeting, King says he can think of nothing that could be done better or more efficiently. Boy are we lucky here in Peru. Both of these guys were asked if there were any "negatives" in the leadership structure and the way they are running things and low and behold they both said NO. Everything is just fabulous. OMG, what a dirty trick this is on the good people of Peru. Reading these minutes is just so painful knowing the truth behind this scam being perpetrated by Harl on the citizens of Peru. Here is the dead giveaway that this task force is not doing their due diligence. King stated it would be hard for him to oversee public works projects if he had not had "experience" in public works. Here's the giveawy folks, WHAT SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE HAS KING OR BERNABEI HAD IN PUBLIC WORKS or ELECTRIC DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS? That question was never asked by anybody on the taks force. Nobody asked WHAT SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE HAVE EITHER OF YOU HAD? WELL, WE'RE WAITING!
Phony titles can be easily bestowed upon unqualified people by incompetent elected officials. That's the easy part. The hard part is having the integrity to hire someone with the experience and the knowledge of years working in the industry. The ad should read, City of Peru now hiring City Administrator, No experience necessary, city will train successful candidate in political tactics and how to pretend to know what you are doing. Mayor will mentor and mold candidate into shallow, sneaky, and untrustworthy public servant modeled after himself. Welcome to Peru.
Sounds like Peru Electric is horribly out of date. No doubt due to siphoning off the "profits" to shore up the uncontrolled spending in the General Fund. No maintenance has been conducted at the major substations in 3 years. The relays are out of date. Yup, thanks Boss Harl.
We need to sell off the electric department to Ameren while it is still worth something. It is going to happen anyway, might as well do it now.
I clicked on the link and got a message that says sorry page not found????
Sorry about that, the city evidently discovered their error in making those minutes public when they had not been approved by the Task Force which will not meet for 2 more weeks so we will now have to wait for 2 more weeks for them to reappear.
What the task force should do is interview the past Supt.'s, they know what moral is like and would set the record straight if what these two supers really know what they are doing.
The task force is to have the responsibility of determining if Peru and a city administrator would make a good marriage and is needed.That is all that lays at the feet of the task force committee how extensive interviews of Bernabei and King have been necessary is not only very questionable but seem to have tainted the questionable selection of a selected candidate since the 1st and maybe only interview has already been made. This is a whole lot simpler method of placing the individual preferred than opening up applications to find out how much horsepower can actually be found for the undisclosed pay range offered.
Doesn't the Mayor get to nominate his choice and than the council approves or disapproves, if disapproved the Mayor makes another choice and the council disapproves again the Mayor than can appoint his 1st choice to the position or make another for the council to approve or disapprove.
This is still a good time to be a employer and the city has a unlimited number of colleges to contact for the ability to hire open positions such as a city administrator or a city manager. One university which is only 60 miles away is NIU which has this curriculum.
This hiree could be employed for a lot less with a degree in the field and a fresh, positive outlook than promoting someone with no specific background necessary because they are presently in the system. Inter promotions have positive aspects when you have someone qualified and willing to accept the position at the starting pay of a administrator. What has the starting pay of recent hirees such as the city engineer, the tech engineer, the finance manager etc.
Upon creating a new position it must be remembered that the baker is a baker, the undertaker is a undertaker and a candle stick maker is a candle stick maker so therefore a city administrator is a city administrator.
a degree isn't worth the paper it is printed on without ten years of experience to back it up. Freshly minted public administrators need to earn their bones as an assistant before they are trusted with the "keys to the city."
To 9:16 AM, Regarding the last sentence in your comment. Not so in Peru. In Peru a Police Chief is a city administrator and an electric department manager. A Fire Chief is a building inspector and a public works manager. Neither of whom are qualified for the ltter duties. A mayor is a corrupt political hack with no moral compass whatsoever. A clerk is a politically motivated restaurantuer who feeds the geriatric over 70's crowd for their votes, and the aldermen are incompetent hacks whose sole function is to protect the financial interests of private companies. In short, in Peru nothing is as it should be.
The main job of administrator is to supervise workers. You won't get that coming out of NIU or whatever University program you have. You need a experienced CEO that is able to delegate and create daily priorities for the city.
I would not necessarily trust a CEO either. It really depends on how long they are CEO for. In today's environment - a CEO stint may only last as long as it takes to sell the company. There are a lot of CEO's that only think forward a couple of years - so everything they do is to make the business look good for a potential buyer. Sad, but it happens every day.
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