Comments on: City Workers Coming And Going

By: Western guy

Western guy — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 01:57:49 +0000

Back to my original question regarding Boise City dept heads: where is the Boise fire chief?

By: lookaround

lookaround — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 21:33:49 +0000

How about the command staff at the police department? Almost all of them left early paying alot of money to PERSI. Now the current ones are leaving early.

By: Chickenhawk

Chickenhawk — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 17:58:53 +0000

It is pretty rare for someone to leave government service as a PR flak to return to television news, especially the same station. It’s usually the other way around, as these young reporters barely last a year dealing with low pay and extremely high stress.

A “deep dive” into why this crazy turnover is happening would be beneficial, but probably not as high a priority to the television news as corporate mandated filler packages from sister stations and subliminal advertising. Perhaps Justin Corr can change that!

By: Kristin Young

Kristin Young — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:31:14 +0000

Thanks to the guardian for addressing this issue. Follow the CCDC and how incestual they truly are. They appear to be where all the back door deals are set. Interesting how they have employees and their cronies in board positions of neighborhood associations. Seems like a full proof way to push their agendas. I’m also seeing a lot of influence from the Urban Land institute. It would be interesting to know more about them and their close relationship with the mayor and city powers. There is shady undermining definitely going on. Boise citizens should be concerned.

By: Mass exodus

Mass exodus — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 04:18:14 +0000

Look at the City Attorney’s Office. Since McClean appointee Jayme Sullivan took over 6 of the 7 senior mangers have left (1 to retirement and 1 to be a judge) after an insane amount of collective tenure with the city. The only one that has stuck around is the youngest and least experienced one. The office has been reconfigured to have less managers but then they hired an old Sullivan friend to some made up executive position. The civil division has ballooned with top talent taking off. The criminal division folks have flown the coup as well. The criminal side lost 6 prosecutors (just shy of half of all prosecutors) from September to January. All of those people went to other government work (AG-1, Ada PA-3, Ada PD-1, Canyon PA-1). That doesn’t include the few who took off a few months before the mass exodus.

And don’t forget the HR head Sara Borden being a former consultant after the prior the director Kelcy Stewart, who was an in-house hire, took off for greener pastures…to work with the HR boss before her Shawn Miller. Their company has a healthy amount of former city employees.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 23:25:32 +0000

The city of Boise’s motto used to be the most livable city in the country. Now it is, creating a city for everyone.

There are many vehicles on our Boise roads without licenses on the front bumper. isn’t there an Idaho code for front plates? I know it’s a little thing however, if our elected public servants don’t enforce something as obvious as this how can we expect they would be able to enforce speeding, running stop signs, tailgating and other unsafe driving habits.
Maybe our problem is public servants not wanting or knowing how to do their job.

By: western guy

western guy — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 22:13:06 +0000

CCDC has been the dumping ground of disgruntled/no longer wanted employees from Boise City.

Look at there website and track there history. Then, look at the CCDC board and their connections. What Beater started continues.

By: Clancy

Clancy — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 18:03:25 +0000

Planning department has taken a big hit over the past 2 years as others have said. Other departures not listed have ended up at ACHD, CCDC and and planning director in north Idaho.

By: Hard hit

Hard hit — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 17:21:49 +0000

I agree that Planning and Development has been hard hit. The grapevine says that CP EC was running it.

The city overall is probably modestly more upset employment wise than usual.

Like did the firemen get the degree and move in? Or is it really important?

Are they trying to look at what the real standards and competencies are? Perhaps they need a class in city management nuts and bolts.

It is not really fair to cast blame without personal stories.

By: katie fite

katie fite — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 03:42:55 +0000

I understand Jennifer Tomlinson, who had been with Parks Dept., left. No idea why – but I do recall her standing in front of a briefing session/work session full of SW Boise residents on the proposed city swap of Murgoitio Park to the Harris Ranch developer Doug Fowler last summer for more ugly sprawl. She was trying to explain the insanely under-valued appraisal of the Murgoitio Park lands (160 acres) vs. the too-steep-to build-on 13 or so acres Harris was offering – by a high voltage power line, too if i recall correctly. That whole sordid episode can’t have been pleasant to try to make excuses for.