All this talk about bringing in private consultants to fix our county government seems to reflect a view on the part of the interim commissioners that the county doesn’t run very well. Repeating the meme that Coos County is a $100 million annual “business” that desperately needs some “strategic planning” only available from expensive private sector consultants reveals a studied refusal to 1) understand government is not a business, and 2) assumes underfunded and understaffed departments must be inefficient simply because they are ‘government’. (If I were a public employee I would be more than a little offended).
What this says to me is we have two seriously inexperienced commissioners with a clear ‘anti-government’ agenda pushing to make changes in a system for which they appear to have little or no understanding. It also indicates a lot of hubris on this newly appointed board. This is more than a little scary and where is Bob Main in all of this?
For the most part I support Main and his efforts at the county but I think he really blew it by loading the board with conservative idealogues.
For some pieces on private sector inefficiency look just about anywhere but also check this site out Death by Spreadsheet
These guys just privatized Coos County Government. As you can see their”committees” are stacked with business people. They have given them contract power, and who knows what else. So now the people in these “committees” are going to run this county, UNELECTED, and stacked with Chamber of Commerce members. I DID NOT VOTE TO PRIVATIZE COOS COUNTY, DID ANY OF YOU? This is exactly what they have done. And Good Ol Boy Fred told us so, remember, “when someone tells you who they are, listen”. And remember. We no longer have elected representation, we now have corporate and business leaders running every aspect of our local government, and most don’t even know it yet. Shame on each and every one of them that put this plan together LONG before we heard about it. Shame.
Throwing $75K at a consultant without a firm plan would not look like good judgment in any business I own or ever worked for. These guys are clueless or they are not telling the whole story to the public
Expensive consultants (and contracted labor) that provide nothing of significant value to the people is not new in Coos County. In the past two years large sums have been spent to support IT, HR, legal and roads departments. And speaking of absent Main – where is Haggerty? GOD help us if the trio leading the parade plan to promote Ms. White who has less than five years experience as an attorney.
Rusty is right! Mary is right. Watch these clowns, they seem to have their own agenda, not “the people’s” agenda. In these very difficult fiscal times they seem to think the budget is limitlese to educate them in their job duties.
The primary election is coming up pretty fast. Keep informed people!
Privatize only means devaluing employees and adding a cost to the activity as the company profit. Bad idea. Sure, don’t pay your employees well. Coos County has no need for any decent jobs. Just privatize and send the “profit” to some unknown company in Florida.