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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Snow Job



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Service Director, Ed Gallagher discusses the policy should an emergency occur on a furlough day. Referring to the snowstorm of Friday, February 25th, Ruth Gray can be heard saying, “It happened!” Immediately, Assistant Service Director, Jim Anderson is heard exclaiming, “No it didn’t!” The dual Service Directors continued to reiterate how all staff members were on duty. “Every truck was on the road,” they proclaimed several times. “It was bad press,” they all agreed.

Some interesting things to ponder:

Furlough days for the Administration and non union employees were in effect on February 25th. Furlough days for the union employees such as the Service Department have not yet been instituted. Consequently, all the regular snow plow crews were out plowing streets.

Now, that brings us back to the local news channel report of furlough days being the cause for poor road conditions in South Euclid on that day. Curiously, Council President David Miller is shown on that news report stating, “Unfortunately, with the furlough days, with city workers being off, our streets were unplowed.”

There are only two reasonable explanations for Council President Miller’s statement. Either he was uninformed of the employee furlough days, or, he knew that road crews were out plowing, but had ulterior reasons for wanting the public to think otherwise. How is it the news reporter happened upon the Council President while filming his story in South Euclid? Who contacted the media? Was it an impromptu interview with Miller, or prearranged?

Statements to consider when watching the videos:

Ed Gallagher: “We had established a program for replacement of trucks from the time I came in (2004), but unfortunately because of funding and everything we had to not go along with that program.”… “It’s a tough situation like I said, we had a program but unfortunately because of funding aspects we couldn’t rotate the trucks and purchase the new trucks as we had proposed.”

Jim Anderson: “We only have 6 salt trucks to cover 5 square miles in our city. Lyndhurst has 12 salt trucks.”… “We have a hard time keeping up with the snow.”

“Every truck was on the road.”
Not quite.
The Service Director and the Assistant Service Director were indeed on a furlough day that Friday when the snowstorm hit. Interestingly, both positions are graced with the use of city vehicles which are driven home. One of those vehicles is a pickup truck with a plow. That vehicle sat in Mr. Anderson’s driveway not plowing city streets. Reliable SEO sources have confirmed those reports.




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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Let the best guy in the service department run the show and take Gallagher's and Anderson's salaries to buy 3 trucks.

Anonymous said...

Gallagher does a pretty good job. Whether or not Miller and the rest of the legislative body knows what they're doing is another story.

Anonymous said...

HOLY CRAP,,,,RIGHT ON ANONYMOUS!
COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER.
I AM SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THE B.S.!
GET THE DAMN JOB DONE,AND WITHIN THE BUDGET,OR YER ASS IS FIRED!
THE SAME RULES THAT WE ALL LIVE UNDER IN THE 'PRIVATE SECTOR'.
BE IT PUBLIC,OR PRIVATE,,,,,FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION.NO MATTER THE EXCUSE!
MAYBE ONE BAD REVIEW,O.K..
YOU GET A SECOND CHANCE.
I DAMN SURE HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH
ANONYMOUS'S SUGGESTION.
AND THESE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES MUST BE HELD TO THE SAME STANDARD THAT WE ARE HELD TO IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
NO MORE UNION PROTECTED JOB FOR LIFE.NO MORE POLITICAL JOB FOR LIFE.NOT ON OUR BACKS!
NO MORE!
GET THE JOB DONE,ON BUDGET,AND ON TIME,,,THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE PAID TO DO.AND YOU WILL FIGURE IT OUT,OR YOU WILL BE REPLACED!
THIS AINT ROCKET SCIENCE!
THIS IS SNOW PLOWING,,,,SEWER CLEANING,LEAF AND TRASH PICKUP.
MAYBE WE DO NEED TO ELIMINATE THESE CLOWNS AND SUBCONTRACT TO PRIVATE COMPANIES THAT WILL BUST THEIR ASSES TO GET THE JOB DONE.
AND MAKE A PROFIT.
ENOUGH ALREADY.I WANT MORE FOR MY TAX DOLLARS! AND IT'S ABOUT TIME WE HELD THESE MORON'S FEET TO THE FIRE.PRODUCE OR YOU'RE GONE!
SORRY,BUT I'VE WORKED FOR OVER 30 YEARS UNDER THAT RULE.AND I'VE NEVER BEEN FIRED YET! I PRODUCE RESULTS!
AND SO SHOULD YOU DUMMIES!
SO THERE!

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