It appears that Robert Lilligren paid for this course with his own
funds. Fine.
But it seems to me that it should have been possible for him to get
reimbursed from city funds. Doesn't the city have a employee tuition
reimbursement program, like almost any other large employers? It certainly
ought to! That's a pretty common employee benefit nowadays.
I know of state legislators who have gone to that very same Kennedy School
of Government at Harvard, and had at least part of their tuition reimbursed
by the State of MN.
And the problems that Lisa McDonald mentions can be easily handled. Years
ago when I worked at Hennepin County Data Processing, the requirements for
the tuition reimbursement were that the course had to be related to your
current job, and if you left county employment within a certain period (18
months, I think) they reclaimed the tuition reimbursement from your final
paycheck. Similar policies covered tuition reimbursement programs at most
other places I worked, and seemed to work fine.
We can't have it both ways on this list, folks!
People regularly make comments here denigrating the quality of city
employees, but people also seem to object to providing employee training &
tuition reimbursement to those employees, when that is a standard employee
benefit at most employers.
What is it -- you want the city to not provide training to employees, so
you have lots of things to gripe about?
Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson
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