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September 27, 2006

THE DPW REORG AND LARRY PEREZ

Did doing his job cause him to fall from grace?

In the private sector, one us usually commended for doing what she/he can to save the company money...by rearranging or reorganizing.....for instance, if the company has 17 steamrollers and 34 steamroller drivers, some of the drivers would be given positions doing something else....(if they were working for me, and I didn't have a position that they knew how to perform, they'd be gone).....so, Larry Perez tried to 'fix' DPW by putting all the people to work....to earn their salaries.......well, seems the guys/gals who weren't used to working decided to march to Adelup and Julale to intimidate(it is after all an election year!!!) and poor Larry Perez has all but been demoted for trying to do a good job.....
get this........he even got a deputy........
I'm willing to bet that the deputy will be there long enough to learn the ropes and dear Larry will find himself in some mail room doing something else........
The front office hasn't minced words about Perez' not following SOP procedures.........very demoralizing for the man who has to work with the marching jerks who he got to because he wanted them to work for their money..........I'm thinking that instead of sending Andy Leon Guerrero from the airport or wherever he came from to DPW, the front office should have sent the brilliant Tony Sanchez to DPW. He would know exactly what to do........remember how he fixed the EITC problem?
Oh well, maybe there's a job for Perez at GTA where his efforts would be appreciated.

Posted by auntiecharo at September 27, 2006 07:37 PM

Comments

Just wanted to comment on the issues you blogged in regards to DPW in its state of disfunction.

It seems that a certain amount of name calling has been expressed without fully comprehending the exacting issues these employees faced.

the label "jerks" being affixed on these employees.

I find it amazing that should issues and concerns should arise it would be an employee or group of employees would be blamed and the appointed authority would be deemed blameless.

Fact of the matter is that Larry PErez made an unsubstantiated claim against employees which these employees felt needed clarification from the Governor.

These so called "jerks" were said to be "unsupervised" and therefore "disorganized" it was naturally required to reorganize them, all because Larry PErez said so.

So in retrospect, considering the comments expressed here, do you still feel satisfied with the performance of someone who you deemed was just doing his job?

1.Failure in the compliance of the consent decree and Solid waste management going into receivership.

2. The inability to implement FHWA projects.

3. Streetlights have been turned off.

4. Trash collection problems continue to persist post reorg.

5. Roads are still potholed.

6. DPW continues to lose its lionshare of federal monies due to noncompliance.

These jerks must really be outsmarting Director Larry Perez, while he continues to do his job. RIght?

Do you really believe he is doing his job?

1. He champions the museum claiming to justify the use of FHWA monies for the construction of a new museum.
2. He is an active committee member of the military build- up and continues to travel as required.
3 He is now touting his expertise in transportation and is willing contribute in collaboration with Department of Administration in fixing problems.

Do you still think Larry Perez is doing his job?

ALl the problems at DPW which is affecting this community are the fault of those "jerks". After all, as was stated, Larry Perez is doing his job.

Esta!

Posted by: Chris [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 29, 2008 03:40 AM

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