Well, the last one didn’t leave, as he was fired by the BoC without cause. We still don’t know why, but it sure sound shaky. Cindy Steinhauser, the one before him, helped the Bevin Administration, Terri Bradshaw, Bill May and Huston Wells, destroy our Convention Center for no good stated reason, and THEN left us in a lurch for a higher paying city manager job in another state!
Find one that’s not always over paid , past prime . Find one that has the hunger, ambition ,respect and drive to do the will of the commissioners and community ? Maybe they won’t fall off that crumbling cliff!
Really, there is no reason to pay a CM that much money for administrative work, i.e., pay the bills on time, follow the policies set by the BoC, handle the day-to-day routine duties like HR duties. Case in point: EMD Tommy Russell was arguably the best, least controversial, mist efficient, productive, and cheapest CM that we have ever have ever had and he did it while handling his other full tome job. Hagg was always overqualified for the position, and therefore over compensated, was smack dab in the middle of controversy for her entire tenure here. The BoCs need to keep what skill set they are looking for during their closed session search for the next CM, or just see if the can talk Tommy Russell to do it.
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Well, the last one didn’t leave, as he was fired by the BoC without cause. We still don’t know why, but it sure sound shaky. Cindy Steinhauser, the one before him, helped the Bevin Administration, Terri Bradshaw, Bill May and Huston Wells, destroy our Convention Center for no good stated reason, and THEN left us in a lurch for a higher paying city manager job in another state!
Find one that’s not always over paid , past prime . Find one that has the hunger, ambition ,respect and drive to do the will of the commissioners and community ? Maybe they won’t fall off that crumbling cliff!
Really, there is no reason to pay a CM that much money for administrative work, i.e., pay the bills on time, follow the policies set by the BoC, handle the day-to-day routine duties like HR duties. Case in point: EMD Tommy Russell was arguably the best, least controversial, mist efficient, productive, and cheapest CM that we have ever have ever had and he did it while handling his other full tome job. Hagg was always overqualified for the position, and therefore over compensated, was smack dab in the middle of controversy for her entire tenure here. The BoCs need to keep what skill set they are looking for during their closed session search for the next CM, or just see if the can talk Tommy Russell to do it.
I got the inference that they were pushed…
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Keep comments focused on the article or commentary in question. Don’t use an article about the Frankfort City Commission, for example, to rant about national politics.
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