Sunday, February 24, 2008

Operational review champion?

I've had this idea in the back of head for a few weeks, but am only finding time to mention this now....

You may remember Jimmy Sima's idea to establish a new subcommittee of the Council, a "Liaison Committee." I think Tom Ruocco gave a good synopsis of Jimmy's idea at the Jan 17 Personnel Committee meeting:

According to Mr. Ruocco, this is committee is nothing more than a suggestion box, and is a way for employees to voice suggestions to the Council, and it gives the Council the opportunity to hear a different aspect of the way the town is being run. Mr. Ruocco sees this suggestion box for employees to bring ideas and suggestions directly to the Council, giving a different perspective on how the town operates, and provide a grass roots input to town operations.

Explained in that manner, I figured Mr. Operational Review himselfwould strongly agree with Jimmy and Tom.

Here was his response:

Mr. Altieri said he has always felt that things are done on a daily basis, and if something is wrong, there is a process to go through in order to change things.... It seems to him that Mr. Sima wants to know what is going on at ground level, and Council members will never know this, and it is the job of the administration to know what is going on…not the Council. The job of the Council is to set procedures and staff oversees employees and insures they do a good job. When there is dissatisfaction with employee performance, the administration explains what needs to be worked on, offers ideas to help, and Council does not need to know what is going on at ground level.

Hmmm... were any of you surprised to learn Mr. Altieri's current long-held view on town government operations?

Tim White
Town Council, 4th District

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Council does not need to know what is going on at ground level"

Hmmm it always comes back to turf with him.
Is he really that stupid to say that or was that made up?
Perhaps if the council understood what was going on at ground level they can make better, more educated decisions. Many of them won't listen to the people who voted them in so what is behind their decision making?

Anonymous said...

Many of (the council) won't listen to the people who voted them in, so what is behind their decision making?

Doing whatever they think they can get away with. Arrogance of power.

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Anonymous said...

11:19 says "Hmmm it always comes back to turf with him.
Is he really that stupid to say that or was that made up? "

No, he did really say that. Tim posted the minutes to that meeting a while back. So I guess the first part of your question is what applies to Mr. Altieri.

He is all about the turf. He has been for some time now. If you ask me, he should not even be allowed to vote on whether we accept the $525K.

Mr. Sima had an excellent idea creating a liason committee. It could only bring new ideas and information to the council. Unfortunately, Mr. Altieri doesn't care to hear any new ideas from town workers. He only seems interested in his "sports buddies."

Anonymous said...

Matt is a joke, always has been always will be. Even his peers at Sheenhan think he is. He does not want accountability in any form, he just wants more toys for the educacrats that support and elect him.

Anonymous said...

Matt should not be allowed to vote on the turf issue and that goes for Mike Ecke also. In both cases a clear conflict of interest.

Anonymous said...

Can someone definitively clarify if Altieri's brother or some other family member has a financial interest in turf?

Even if he recuses himself from formally voting for the turf, he's already lobbied Hartford for the funds and is lobbying his council colleagues to vote for it.

If one of his family members does, in fact, have a financial interest in this, I wonder if he hasn't already crossed ethical boundaries.

Anonymous said...

Like the lease on the ballfields?

Anonymous said...

"it is the job of the administration to know what is going on…not the Council."

The council doesn't have to know anything? I guess this explains why they voted for the W/S mall. They just have to vote the way the Dem town chairman says?

Anonymous said...

i heard he invented field turf and will receive millions in commissions when this field is done
then he will take over cheshire and put field turf on every lawn and every road

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