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Op-ed: Eric is trying hard to play “grown up” (by Peter Children)

Trout is being evaluated; what are the chances he’ll pass the test?  How about 110%…or more.  Figures, he always agrees with our part time mayor, does his bidding without question.  Eric has the title to every seat at the council table and those are the one’s who’ll do the judging.  The real question should be up to the public….how would you vote?  I’d vote to clear the entire room.

If we had a different mayor we’d have a different administrator; it could still be Trout but he’d be different.  He wouldn’t  need to act as a baby sitter when he went out with the mayor, he wouldn’t need to make sure the mayor got home safely; when the mayor got cut off at the bar he wouldn’t have to sneak more beer for him.  But the most important thing would be is this; he could do his job the way it was suppose to be done.   I think they are evaluating the wrong guy.

Eric has ordered the Fire Chief to compile a report on how to best change what has been a successful operation for decades.  Eric is trying hard to play “grown up”, he thinks these departments are his toys, but there is a much darker underlying message here and that is the union.  One of the issues here is supposedly the overtime, aleadged to be $180,000.00,  that is being racked up by the department.  A trip to Iowa City to the hospitals could run into a ten order ordeal, then there could be considerable more time involved by waiting on doctors.  The other guy’s job always looks easier until you have to do it yourself.  I say if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.  Eric wants to be lean, trim the budget, but he see’s nothing wrong by spending close to $70,000.00 to move his desk.  Hello! Before he adheres to the lean initiative he should step onto the scale and start there.

Trout is a walking bundle of nerves; you can see that just by looking at him.  His salary is now alleged to be $150,000.00 which should fall under the felony rule.  Based on a eight hour day, he makes $50.00 an hour awake or asleep 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  A lot more than most baby sitters get.  In this world everyone’s basic instinct is to survive…it’s inherent, why should Trout be any different.

Peter Children

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