It’s time again that the Commissioner of DPW is asking to
hire more help. There are certainly
enough DPW workers to fill all the positions right now, maybe even more than we
need.
Someone told me that the saw 2 DPW employees on Locust
Grove Rd. in the Town of Wilton in the middle of the day with a City truck
looking at 2 motor cycles, that is 2 employees that DPW doesn’t need if they
have time to look around for motorcycles out of Saratoga Springs, I wonder
where they went next and what jobs suffered because they obviously weren’t
doing theirs.
The same person told me that she was driving down Hitchcock
Rd. and saw 2 DPW employees sitting in their truck after 2pm reading a
newspaper and one talking on his cell phone.
Again, we can eliminate these 2 employees because they must not have
anything to do.
Have you ever followed a DPW truck around ( I know, get a
life) and you drive around for an hour burning gas and the truck never stops,
it just keeps driving round and round until it hits a coffee shop then stops
and refuels with java then drives around again?
How about the trucks that are parked in front of private
homes or out at the Wilton Mall or WalMarts?
Trucks stopping at personal residences picking up garbage?
Below is a picture of truck #210 parked during the middle of the day at the
ITAM club Grand Ave.
I think what this shows is that we have more employees
than we need and more working supervisors that the Commissioner promoted at
higher salaries. There seems to be more
‘working supervisors’ than employees, move some of these supervisors back to
regular employees. I think it also shows
that there is no one in that department that can plan jobs for a work day and
there is no supervision by the Commissioner or his Deputy.
If I were the one that Commissioner Scirocco was asking
for more DPW employees, that person should be telling Scirocco ‘how many
employees will you let go? The general
feeling of the City is that with all the spare time the employees have, DPW
should be accomplishing quite a bit more than they are with the size of the
force they have now.
The City Attorney did the sensible thing in resigning her
post after the Council was pressuring the Mayor to fire her. We had a City Attorney that was bright, easy
to get along with and very capable of doing a superb job. It’s sad that politics has to be forced into
that position when she was trying to protect the Council members legally and in
turn represent the legal opinions to protect the citizens. Sarah, you will be missed, but with your
legal knowledge you will have a long and prosperous career.
Here now are our City employees enjoying an afternoon at
the Italian American Club. See you
there.
Ciao for now.
