The perks that the Fabulous Four gets at City Hall

Sep 12, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
I refer to the letter of Nadine Jerrick on the current Town Clerk (TC) in KN of Sept 9th 2017. This is of one of the beauties of letters to the editor in that one gets news of troubling matters from those close to the actions and from what Nadine Jerrick has written I have no doubt of that closeness.
One of the perks of office of the “Fab 4” at City Hall is travelling around to foreign cities to see what they do and to see to what extent they the “Fab 4” could copy. Who really believes that? Perks are perks, plain and simple.
The TC himself has apparently stretched himself beyond all perks any of his predecessors had and he has successfully pleaded the issues of personal safety and that of family to establish himself as the ‘City King’.
His earlier behaviour of demolition and castigations of the needy traders and hucksters still resonate and are now being fuelled by edicts and penalty impositions in the ‘City King’. Who will read an edict to this TC?
Those cities visited in ‘perkish style’ would never allow such behaviour to go unattended without some official intervention. So the question is ‘why is the responsible minister not making his authority felt?’ The answer is obvious!
Ministers have to be protective of their positions and as the TC is a well tried labourer of his party; there is some lurking danger in exercising ministerial authority. That would never happen in any of the cities the Fab 4 visited! Now as an experienced manager both in Guyana and here in Toronto, we never allowed staff to permanently store their vacation. They don’t take it, we simply send them on leave and what do you know? Of the few who bucked the system, we found unattended tasks, scheduling, follow-ups, unanswered enquiries. So henceforth you take your vacation each year!
Having had such experiences as a manager, I suspect that the TC has some filled closets and it is only a directive from the President that would send him off to settle his brains. Staff like the TC has an innate belief that the place could not run without them.
The solution is so easy. The President simply tells the Minister to issue a directive. The TC would dash off to the President to plead his case, but alas, no such success! The problem however is that the President would not want to be the real person responsible! The party and merry go round will continue. The TC has to be corralled and stabilized and hopefully from that action he would work along by established organizational rules. Good order and governance should be the motto.
Carl Veecock
Canada

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