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
Peter, why do you not run for mayor if your so good? Jim
So far his top ten excuses are:
10. Blackballed by the ELKS
9. Died for 12 min and thought he was GOD
8. Matt won’t let him
7. He might have to learn how to spell
6. Math was not his strong suit, you know budgets and all
5. It’s more fun to take potshots from the outside than actually coming up with solutions
4. He couldn’t “service” all his married lady friends if he was mayor
3. He was featured in the TIME magazine “PORN” issue about Mason City and that might not go over well with voters
2. It would take up too much his time and stop him from blogging on this site.He is famous you know
And the #1 reason Peter won’t run for Mayor is:
Too old.
Reggie:
Great response you have. Pete has mentioned from time to time that he is “too old” to be mayor. Yet he isn’t “too old” to run his mouth.
And you’re too lame to use your real name. Something to hide?
I like you Reggie; one of these day I might sign to let you out for the weekend.
Critiquing me for not using my real name while NOT using your real name. Interesting logic.
You should go back to your grade school and ask them to teach you the difference between “your” and “you’re” so you don’t look like you’re illiterate.
I am sorry, you are correct. I divided by 8 instead of 24.
Peter if your posts get anymore disjointed no one will be able to decipher them. $50 an hour? Basic math.Do you ever filter/think about anything that you post?I would like to think that you and Matt are nice people but the more I read all you guys are after is hits on this site. You both have figured out that the more outrageous your posts are, the more hits you get. SAD this site “could have been a contender”
Trout should be evaluated and if his employers the city council do their jobs he will be looking for new employment soon. Why do we pay a guy 150,000 dollars a year to be a yes man and not get anything accomplished. Has he brought stability to city hall and all the other departments, do employees and department heads and the public respect and trust his judgements, if the answer is no then he should be fired. Its not that hard for the city council to talk with employees and the public to get an understanding what people think of this guy. The public would be very open and honest and employees the council might have to read between the lines a little because after all they are employees and worried about their jobs if nothing gets done.
The administrator needs to be evaluated, he is a hired emloyee of the city. I have never agreed with this city having an administrator and this current one has only confirmed that feeling. If I remember right when the council proposed the idea of having an administrator, in surveys done at that time the general feeling of the public was that we didnt want/need one. We shoud go back to a full time mayor (preferably after the next election). Wouldnt that be lean? Why does the administrator hire others at times, at another added expense, to do the same job he was hired to do. For what the administrator gets paid, with our tax dollars I might add, he does need to be evaluated and when he has been found not to have passed I hope the council does their job and does the right thing. Now is the time for a change.
I meant to say a “ten hour ordeal”
What do you mean Trout is being evaluated? How do you know that? Why is he being evaluated? Thanks.
People from City Hall call me and tell me things