[Mpls] Outrageous Election by the Park Board, Filling R.T.'s Campaign Coffers, and Housing the Homeless...

[Dyna]

	As long as we've thrown out the usual process for hiring 
administrators for the park and school boards, what the heck... Lets 
just hire a bunch of homeless folks for these positions and their 
staffs. They'd probably do just as good a job and at least they'd do a 
full day's work. Then we let R.T. turn his fundraiser into a fundraiser 
for local agencies serving the homeless, with political favors 
shamelessly auctioned off to the highest bidding lobbyists. Hey, if 
we're gonna be shameless let's at least be shameless for a good cause.

	makin' humor in Hawthorne,

		Dyna Sluyter

On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 09:53 PM, John Erwin wrote:

Five of the nine Commissioners elected an interim Superintendent who 
had not
even applied for the job, even though we had several semifinalists (4) 
who
were exceptional and had expressed an interest in continuing our 
interview
process.  These Commissioners circumvented our process and pulled a
candidate 'out-of-the-hat' after discussing this among themselves 
without
involving 4 of the 9 Commissioners on the Board.  Their actions exhibit
exactly what disillusion citizens about politicians, were 
unprofessional to
say the least, were disrespectful to those citizens that the 
un-consulted
Commissioners represent, and did the institution of the Minneapolis 
Park and
Recreation Board great harm.

We were given a 2-page resume with little or no information after the 
motion
to appoint this person was made at the meeting!  I don't even know if 
the
new Superintendent meets the minimum requirements that we identified as
necessary!  Although the candidate has a degree, I don't know in 
what!!  No
interview!  I have never even met this person and I was supposed to 
vote on
him tonight to run our Park System!

What I do know is that we have had formal complaints to the Park Board 
about
the behavior of this individual, and that he is a friend of several
Commissioners who voted for him.  Outrageous!  What about the great
candidates who we and the search firm already identified as 
exceptional from
all over this country that had great ideas on how to take this system 
to the
next step?  What a difference some of them could have made.  It would 
have
been appropriate to interview the candidate!!!!!
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