Council to Dohoney: Get it done or else
Before Milton Dohoney Jr. (pictured) was hired as Cincinnati city manager, some Council Members insisted an official job evaluation for the job be adopted.That happened Wednesday.
Council Member Jeff Berding presented a motion -- it was adopted unanimously – that calls for city managers to be graded on about 30 items.
“The city has suffered too long,” Berding said, by not having a performance-driven evaluation of its city manager.
The evaluation, he added, is similar to one given to a chief executive officer of a major business.
The criteria includes responding to public complaints about and requests of city employees, selecting high-quality staff and keeping Council up to date on the city’s financial condition.
Dohoney will be evaluated in February, after six months on the job, by Council Members Chris Monzel, Chris Bortz, Cecil Thomas and David Crowley.
After one year on the job, Dohoney – being paid $185,000 per year to oversee a $1.2 billion annual budget – will be evaluated by a four different Council Members.
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Post a Comment*"After one year on the job, Dohoney – being paid $185,000 per year to oversee a $1.2 billion annual budget – will be evaluated by a four different Council Members."
Didn't this City Manager put a salary increase for himself in this 2007 Budget, along with a hefty staff increase for the Mayor's Office?
The Mayor is claiming he's cutting his budget, but I haven't heard if the City Manager has pulled in his horns.
BTW, this budget is projected to be reinstated & balanced on the backs of the city retirees. Will the FreeStore give all the retirees a free sack of groceries during the December holidays as their way of saying thank you?
Will the Arts Associations give the retirees free passes to the venues of their choice? Will places such as Tender Mercies help the retireds with their medical & mental problems?
I could go on, but the answer is crystal clear. They all want their money & to hell with where the funding comes from.
However, I applaud City Council for creating a scorecard on the City Manager. It's too bad it can't be done for the do-nothing Mayor. He would have been gone by now.
It's not too late to save yourselves & your families!
Of course they could take the money from other places beside the retirement fund, like 3CDC.
No more money should go to 3CDC after what they did to Fountain Square. It's looks terrible and will cost the taxpayers over $100 million instead of just the $4 million that their PR person that happens to be the President of the Enquirer had this rag report.
It's time for this City to get better prioities and that means voting out the politicians that are owned by 3CDC. That means everybody that raised over $100,000 has got to go!
don't worry. the retirees and their unrealistic solid gold retirement plans will not be harmed. meanwhile all those retirees should be thanking their lucky stars they worked for the city and not the private sector.
Bravo! I don't know anyone who doesn't have a performance review, and the only way it can be fair and productive is if the employee knows what they'll be measured on. Smart move Berding!
Well, maybe Mr.Dohoney should look into the double-dipping abuse taking place in our City Government.The former Acting City Manager, David Rager, placed his recently retired and good friend, Connie Rosch,to the position of Assistant City Finance Director at the annual salary ranging from $88,557 to $119,552. She will not be contributing to the Cincinnati Retirement System which is facing possible financial difficulties in the future.
The City of Cincinnati budget looks like one of the worst in years and since many public officials read this blog I thought I would comment on the budget with some suggestions:
The budget should not be balanced on the backs of the retirees. The manager's recommendations should be followed regarding the effort to catch up on the pension contributions.
The Mayor and the Council should revisit the need for the 65 new police officers. I would cut that part of the budget to no new officers or only up to the 15 Chief Striecher recommended some time ago. The violent crime problem is not a problem reflective of too few police officers as much as adaptive social problems that recur in endless cycles unless the root causes of the social problems are addressed. For example, there are too many illegal guns on the streets of our city and a focused strategy in that direction would assist. Therefore, I would raise the appropriation for Operation Ceasefire or a similar program to $400,000 from the suggested $100,000. Economic development programs should focus on work and job development in difficult neighborhoods. That is the right answer though I confess it is not easy to do as a matter of public policy.
Taxing stock options is a common sense way to generate some $4-$6 million dollars for the city general fund. Cincinnati is the only major city in Ohio that does not tax stock options. Our failure to do so as a city is not only unfair to other taxpayers it is one reason that people lack faith in their government where citizens come to believe that benefits are given to those who have great economic advantages.
The property tax rollbacks can now be seen as fiscally unwise. The Council, in the face of current circumstances, should reverse course (the best leaders are able to admit error and reverse course) and re-build the city's revenues.
As a former member of the City Cincinnati Council and its Finance Committee and a four year Chairman of the Law and Public Safety Committee, I respectfully offer these suggestions.
Councilman Berding's suggestion to develop a grading system is good but does not go far enough. This suggestion should be applied to City Councilpersons. This does not have to be complex and created by "experts" It can be as simple as did they do the job they were elected to do. Represent the people.
2007 is going to see a big change in the landscape of city government and people are beginning to pay attention. The mid-term elections are the beginning of a backlash against corruption and influence peddling. Cincinnati is typically slow to catch on to what is going on in the world but change is happening and it is not going to be instant. The work of independent media in Cincinnati is to be applauded and the erosion of control by the local corporate propoganda machines is only the beginning. Stay Tuned.
is k. yates running for council now (that he will be term limited after getting nothing done at the state)?
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