And we trust these folks to run our city, investigate poop farm issues and make un-bias rulings on growth and infill? I venture to say they have been (are) confused a lot during those times too.

Yes, but what you said did allow for me to rant on about the fact that the tax payers are the ones who seem to pick up the tab for the actions of “stupid is as stupid does” .
We may recall the great “mistake” of President Bush and his weapons of mass destruction – which is costing lives as well as taxpayer monies into generations to come.

Several years ago there was an ad on the TV – the sound bite was “IMAGE IS EVERYTHING” and it does appear that many took that to heart, including our local governmental officials.

We need a good sound bite for subtance….. (heavy sigh)

I never said that person shouldn’t take a hit. I merely was stating this scenario could be plausible.

This administration will always be about image and nothing else.

Substance would be a nice change…

However, could it be that someone was just being stupid when they mailed the thing out? There is lots of stupid everywhere. Perhaps the employee in question is not that bright and therefore didn’t think anything wrong with what they did, even though it was a very stupid act.

As for Team Dave and Mr. Riley, well the placebo comment is spot on. As long as it looks like somthing is being done, they feel it is as good as having it done. It is exactly the same as their so called ethics policies. Because they have this means something very real in their minds. Pull back and look at it objectively and you see it for what it is – all hat and no cattle.

EDITOR NOTE–Ferris, you got it totally correct. There was a minor infraction which was reported and corrected. At that point the system burped and “victim” truthfully reports to us that city never contacted him. GUARDIAN blog worked to perfection, one foul two freethrows. Play ball.

However, I for one am please that he came forth with this information, if what he says is true (I believe it is), there is a even bigger problem here.

We’ve seen corruption from within the management ranks of Public Works, not only at the City’s Farm, but also at the Treatment Plants. Obvious signs of a senior level management cover-up and now it appears even the Mayor’s Hotline comments may have some trust issues.

The Hotline issue doesn’t sound like much, but if it’s true – it says volumes that amount to much more.

I hope we’ll be hearing more about this soon.

Maybe Mr. Oldenburg better check in with us every couple days, just so we know he’s OK. There are sinister forces at work here. It would easy for him to “trip” (nudge nudge, wink wink) on the greenbelt, and get swept away by that swift-flowing current, ending up floating face-down in somebody’s yard on Eagle Island. (I’m just off another season of “24” here, but I’m picturing a “Team Dave” where Dave is just a puppet of a secretive shadow government. Gary Lyman is really calling the shots, via untraceable, encrypted satellite cell phone, from his armored underground fortress.)