HomeMy WebLinkAboutPublic Comment from John Boyle The City Manager, Jill Ingram, needs a current evaluation.
1. Jill Ingram's contract calls for an annual evaluation by March 1st and yet she has not been
evaluated by her supervisors in more than 2 1/2 years. When employees are not held
accountable there is no way to ensure goals and objectives are being met and quality of work
begins to slip. Today we have a manager who has both mis-managed and not managed the
city who is paying her salary.
2. Mismanagement:
a. Paying salaries from Water and Sewer. According to the current budget, the City
Manager spends more than 1 day a week, every week on water and sewer issues.
The Assistant City Manager spends almost 2 days a week on water and sewer issues.
And with all this executive management oversight we are projected to be 1.5 million
in the hole at the end of the year. We need an evaluation of the City Manager.
b. Spending on non-essentials even though projections of deficits have been heralded
at every council meeting. Consultants, consultants and more consultants. The latest
being a Social Media consultant...REALLY? $39,150 for social media? Cancel the
contract and evaluate the manager's spending habits.
3. Non-Management: First Street Flood debacle.
Over New Year's weekend high tides and rain caused a lot of damage. This had been
predicted and city knew it was coming. Yet every single manager was out of town and unavailable
with no contingency plan or backup.
No berm was put up at First Street parking lot and the east beach berm was breeched. No
Chief Lifeguard available all weekend. No City Manager. No Public Works Director. No Police
Chief...no management!
Wasn't Jim Basham,then Community Development Director,fired for not coming into town
when the First Street pump failed and we flooded?
Not only did the First Street parking lot flood, but a large sinkhole also developed and still no
management came into town to evaluate the damage and set up safety procedures for the public.
Even as the sink hole continued to enlarge no management came into town. Everyone was on
vacation and not even the City Manager thought it worth the trip to check out the problem
threatening the city she is supposed to manage. Even after it hit TV news Jill Ingram and every other
manager didn't come into town.
Moreover, no experts were called in to analyze why the parking lot failed. A hole in the jetty?
Shouldn't the Army Corp of engineers have been called in? Tidal influx below the parking lot?
Perhaps an environmental engineer could have been called in? The City Manager just had the hole
filled in with slurry cement with no rebar and paved. Wow...it is obviously way past time for the City
Council to re-evaluate their employee: the City Manager, Jill Ingram.
John Boyle, Seal Beach since 1964
Pleased distribute to: Cit ouncil, City Manager, City Clerk and City Attorney