Comments on: Coppers Complicate Cleaning Contract Caper

By: nan emouse

nan emouse — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:57:15 +0000

Dave, I saw this issue in the Statesman on Wednesday. Should have known that it appeared first here. Shame on me for not checking your site more frequently.

This whole episode stinks. It sounds to me as if its not a question of someone who would be working knowing someone who might have a record for something but rather… someone wanted the original cleaning company to have the contract. They were outbid? No problem, we’ll void the contract. Transparency? Uh, well its an ongoing investigation so we can’t talk about it. Well, they can talk about it if they’d like, they just use the ongoing investigation as an excuse.

I hope the Clearview people sue the pants off the City, Kerns, Bieter and anyone else who had a part in this. Only then can the public get the truth.

PS Dave. If you have copies of the emails, could you post them or to a link where they would be?

By: dog

dog — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:51:47 +0000

We have a sensitive, new age police force. The Fung shue was just wrong. So pathetic how the deciders in this day and age act. Oh yeah, I forgot, terrorism, we are at war!

By: pollyjunkie

pollyjunkie — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:35:30 +0000

The city’s treatment of Clearview in this matter is abominable. Even if they had cause to deny the contract, to wait until the last minute with no explanation or if giving an explanation without giving them opportunity to correct what was bothering them smacks of double-dealing. So now we have the lame explanation and you know what? It still smells.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:36:34 +0000

It is pretty much a universal requirement that no govt. employee can,t be convicted of a felony or a serious misdemeanor. Cleaning offices does require a level of honesty and integrity but the actual work is not something requiring a high level security clearance. Bonding of the employee usually takes care of most things of employee/employer trust and honesty.

People grow and change with time. I would have a problem not condemning someone for a problem that happened way back in their life. Good behavior should count for something. Time and maturity generally happen sooner or later in most people’s lives. They see the value of conforming to the norms of society.

Career criminals are another matter. You would not want them as an employee and their records speak loudly via a background check.