Comments on: Drowning In Bureaucracy

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:31:44 +0000

I met Brandi at jury duty. I felt good just talking to her. She couldn’t do any worse than the current bureaucrats and I would feel better.

By: joe Moran

joe Moran — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:46:15 +0000

I wonder why The Guardian is surprised at having to deal with the bureaucratic merry-go -round? Have you ever had a serious problem with city or county services that requires simple common -sense to be repaired and found out you had to talk to 10 different people ( all of whom disclaimed responsibility, but only after they made you explain the problem for 10 minutes )I’m convinced some of them have a sadistic streak here. Finally the tenth one ” might help” – but by then your too exhausted to explain the situation to them. I suspect they do this on purpose.

There’s got to be a silver-lining here somewhere- if one in ten bureaucrats can actually try to solve a problem lets decrease our city and county bureaucracy by 90% and save everybody money and a severe headache.

By: Sisyphus

Sisyphus — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:33:50 +0000

Oh come on. I’m with Stevo. Just where would you put these signs? How many? What size would be adequate to warn potential users? What would the sign say? What color? Should they be lit? And while we’re at it should also warn about the other dangers like the dangerously high flow? How do we warn river users who may be blind? Ad absurdum.

Hey I’ve got an idea. Lets publish a warning in the paper instead.

ED NOTE–If the tree fell in the street and they couldn’t move it, they would put up a warning sign. If people are dumb enough to float in high water do you think they would read the paper?

By: tam

tam — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:33:23 +0000

I dunno, Brandi for Commissioner…hmmmm. Well, I guess they’ve all been swindelling us for awhile now…what could it hurt?

By: Porcupine

Porcupine — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:45:47 +0000

Tam
It’s not to late for Brandi…. How about Ada County Commish? Brandi…Judy… Brandi… Judy. How can us poor taxpayers decide this one?

By: tam

tam — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:51:05 +0000

It surely wouldn’t be the first time the KentRockettes gave sky-is-falling-advice to City Departments on risk management. The other side of this, of course, is that claims paid out, are either directly or indirectly our tax dollars also. So from that standpoint Risk Management is a good thing. Sometimes though, like Mr. Woods’ initial impression, common sense should just be the order of the day. No Risk Manager, No Governale (whose very name means red tape I think) and no feasibility analysis. Just put up the sign and fuggetaboutit. Steavo, we’d all like it better if the Guardian ran the City and if Jimmy Smitz is elected president the entire nation can relax. BTW if Brandi had been elected this would all be water under the …..fallen tree. Right Porcupine?

By: CYCLOPS

CYCLOPS — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:46:23 +0000

The guy I feel sorry for is Paul Woods. Can you imagine the “discussion” he and Governale had the next morning when he told Governale he was going to put a warning sign up? Betcha that was a classic case of “don’t mess with my turf”.
Shame on you Mr. Woods! What were you thinking?
Another case of a well-meaning employee being taught that his loyalty is to the system, NOT the citizens.

By: Stevo

Stevo — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:29:48 +0000

Oh please. Who cares! If the Guardian editor was running the city everything would be handled much more efficiently. What ever happened the good old Idahoan spirit where people took care of themselves and didn’t depend on the government to help them with everything. If people are floating the river at this time of year they either don’t deserve a warning or they are resourceful enough to handle a tree in the river. Sometimes Mr. Guardian gets a little bit nit picky.

By: Porcupine

Porcupine — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:19:08 +0000

Why does this make me think that we are paying too much taxes?