A Clueless City Manager
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Topic: A Clueless City Manager
Posted By: Middletown News
Subject: A Clueless City Manager
Date Posted: Jul 25 2011 at 10:49am
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A young engineer was leaving the city building at 5:45 p.m. when he found the city manager standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in her hand.
“Listen,” said the City Manager, “this is a very sensitive and important document, and my secretary is not here. Can you make this thing work?” “Certainly,” said the young engineer. He turned on the machine, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button. “Excellent, excellent” said the city manager as her paper disappeared inside the machine, “I just need one copy.” Lesson: Never, never ever assume that your city manager knows what she’s doing. ------------- Please like our http://www.facebook.com/middletownusa" rel="nofollow - Middletown USA Facebook Page |
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Posted By: Pacman
Date Posted: Jul 25 2011 at 10:35pm
Haven't Stopped Laughing Yet!! 
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Posted By: John Beagle
Date Posted: Jul 26 2011 at 3:04pm
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Yea, Haller is a funny man. I'm sure this is about another city manager. I city manager surely knows how to work a shredder. lol ------------- http://www.johnbeagle.com/" rel="nofollow - John Beagle Middletown USA News of, for and by the people of Middletown, Ohio. |
Posted By: Mike_Presta
Date Posted: Jul 26 2011 at 10:53pm
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------------- “Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012 |
John Beagle wrote:Posted By: ground swat
Date Posted: Jul 26 2011 at 10:57pm
| Doesn't the city use dumpsters? |
Posted By: Mike_Presta
Date Posted: Jul 26 2011 at 11:28pm
I think it was sometime last year that a pile of documents containing sensitive taxpayer information was found in a dumpster!!! I can't recall who they blamed it on. I'll try to find the story and post it here later tonight. ------------- “Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012 |
Posted By: Mike_Presta
Date Posted: Jul 26 2011 at 11:40pm
Here's the story:Private papers found in trashLaw director not sure how documents got into the recycling Dumpster without being shredded.
DATE: April 3, 2010
MIDDLETOWN - For several weeks, a mound of city
documents containing Social Security numbers, phone numbers and carbon copies of
checks filled a Dumpster at Smith Park, where they were accessible to
anyone. The Journal received a tip that led to the discovery of countless junked
records containing personal information for Middletown residents, along
with blueprints, contracts and tax papers.
Most appear to have originated in the city's public works and
utilities department, with a few from the police and finance departments.
City Manager Judy Gilleland said normal records policy
calls for documents of that nature to be shredded and not simply thrown away.
"We typically ... have the Shred-it company come on site and take care of
everything," Gilleland said. "I don't know why we would be dumping in Smith
Park, other than those are our Dumpsters."
Law Director Les Landen said he is not sure how confidential documents
got into the recycling Dumpster, but he suspects they started in a
recycling bin within the city building. Every piece of recycled paper
from the city building eventually ends up in the container at Smith Park,
according to Landen.
"Somebody made a mistake and threw something away that should have been
shredded," Landen said. "We do have a policy and process for getting rid of
confidential and sensitive documents, but that clearly was not followed here."
While Landen is not sure an incident like this would expose the
city to potential legal action, he said it is still "a practice we do not
condone."
"We need to make sure our employees know where the material is going
after it leaves their offices," Landen said. "Sometimes situations like this
help us self-check ourselves."
A similar incident of public information being improperly disposed
occurred last summer when attorney William Bowen's office dumped stacks of
business and real estate case files in a downtown public trash bin.
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Journal ------------- “Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012 |
Posted By: Mike_Presta
Date Posted: Jul 26 2011 at 11:55pm
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After reviewing the April, 2010, newspaper article, I recant my prior assertion that I was "fairly certain that the City Manager learned to operate a shredder". Apparently, she prefers to call in professional shredders from the "Shred-it company" to "come on site and take care of everything".
------------- “Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012 |
Posted By: VietVet
Date Posted: Jul 27 2011 at 6:53am
As I recall, no one in the police dept, public works, nor the finance department was fired for this. Imagine that.  Even more amazing is that the article states that the Law DIErector couldn't make a judgement on whether there could be a lawsuit against the city for this infraction. Usually, if Leslie can't find the real application of the law in any given situation, he makes one up, doesn't he? 
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Posted By: spiderjohn
Date Posted: Jul 27 2011 at 7:30am
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Moving Middletown Forward Committee Suggestions for activities • Recruit and train candidates for ward election in 2009 • Establish committees for various activities: fundraising, issues, campaign strategy Candidate assistance • Workshop for selected candidates: public relations, speech coaching, establish issues, raise funds ($3,000-$5,000 needed for competitive campaigns for each and establish budgets) Recruiting suggestions • Search for candidates who have been active in their wards and have some name recognition • Set target fundraising for each candidate (1/2 support candidate, 1/2 from committee through fundraisers) Campaign suggestions
--------------------------------------------- thanx 4 re-posting, Mrf.P wasn't this available on the desk in the reception area of the city manager in the city building? wouldn't this conflicy WWF's tax exempt status? who are the members? isn't admin and Council heavily represented here? what have they accomplished? food 4 thought in the up-coming elections!
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Posted By: Mike_Presta
Date Posted: Jul 27 2011 at 8:59am
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Not only a conflict with MMF's tax exempt status, but more importantly apparently a brazen violation of anti-electioneering laws!!! (Using taxpayer furnished goods, services, employees or property to influence an election.)
------------- “Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012 |
Posted By: VietVet
Date Posted: Jul 27 2011 at 10:51am
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From the MMF web site...
MIDDLETOWN MOVING FORWARD CIC Ken Cohen, President Cohen Brothers Lawrence P. Mulligan Jr., Vice President City of Middletown Bill Triick, Secretary The Chamber of Commerce Judith A. Gilleland, Treasurer City of Middletown Fred DeBiasi American Savings Bank Anthony “Tony” Marconi City of Middletown Greg Martin Greg Martin Excavating Alan McCoy AK Steel Douglas W. McNeill Atrium Medical Center Bill Murphy City of Middletown Had to have changed by now since Murphy is long gone, perhaps since McNeill has left Atrium and Marconi is no longer a player with position in the city. Wonder who else is a player but not on this list??? Gotta be others. Would be nice to know their specific internal agenda rather than the bullsh-- noted on their website. Certainly one is controlling city hall's decisions with Mulligan and Gilleland representing the city government puppets. Middletown Moving Forward CIC is a non-profit public/ private organization charged with directing the city’s economic development priorities. The organization was founded in 2005 as a partnership of the City and The Chamber of Commerce and includes representation from the community’s two largest employers, AK Steel and Atrium Medical Center. |