Heat Over Snow Removal Puts City Employee on the Hot Seat
If you were left cold by the city’s sub-stellar snow removal performance last week, you may be warmed to know that changes have been made. And not just small “we’ll do better next time” changes. Public Works Director Karl Fredrickson actually yanked oversight of street maintenance away from City Engineer Roger Figard and assigned it to Antelope Valley Project manager Wayne Teten instead. “We will have new direction in street maintenance,” according to Fredrickson. Talk about a vote of no-confidence in Figard. Ouch.
One gets the feeling that this shake-up is about bigger things than just this one event, and that it was a long time coming. Or perhaps I’m over-analyzing.
In any event, I have had only limited interaction with Wayne Teten, but the interactions I had were positive. Short story even shorter, I requested information about the Antelope Valley Project a couple times, and I received prompt and thorough replies each time. That doesn’t say much about his ability to manage his new 135 full-time employees, but it’s a positive data point nonetheless.
The Comments
beerorkid January 8, 2007 at 3:26pm
anything to end the letters to the editor about snow removal.
I love snow, but dread the letters that come in every time.
jwiltshire January 8, 2007 at 5:47pm
I’m with you BoK.
You should write a letter about it.
beerorkid January 8, 2007 at 5:49pm
thanks for making my brain hurt thinking about that one. I am sure it would open up a black hole or something.