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Tomorrow there will be the Annual Review of our City Manager, Susan Stanton. What the Vice Mayor has to say:
When we interviewed city managers it was obvious that Susan understood our challenges and was uniquely qualified to tackle decades of mis-management.
In my opinion, Susan Stanton has demonstrated her leadership abilities over and over again. Below are some examples:
Susan Stanton's leadership is guiding the city through some of the most financially challenging budgets we've had in decades.
Her reputation as an extremely experienced and competent city manager attracts high quality professionals to our staff positions.
She created a financing and redevelopment plan for the beach property that: 1) no other city manager or commission has been able to move forward 2) did not require a bond issue, tax increase or taxpayer dollars, it will pay for itself.
Susan helped us save the city's $15 million investment in the Reverse Osmosis Plant by resolving the contract dispute with Palm Beach County.
She is the only city manager who has had the courage to stand up for us on the regional sewer issue for which we are owed millions and millions of dollars. Apparently no other city manager had the expertise or motivation to address this huge problem. (It amounts to over $10 million that is owed to Lake Worth)
She has restructured our finance operations to provide us with vital analysis and budget updates that the commission needs in order to make informed decisions. Incredibly, we have never had these tools before Susan Stanton became our city manager.
Suzanne Mulvehill
Vice Mayor
8 comments:
While all of this might be true and Stanton might be good at somethings, she has not been good at public relations with the citizens and her demeanor is overbearing and offensive, she lacks people skills to communicate and treat the public like she should be treating them. She needs to learn to listen better to the public and be kinder in dealing with us and how she treats us.
She has always been cordial to me. We didn't hire her for public relations. We don't want another Paul Boyer or Bob Baldwin here who said "yes" to everything or didn't open their mouths unless it was to give it all away...didn't open their mouths to advise the Commission BEFORE it got into expensive and bad deals.
And silky foreclosure's opinion matters because........?
Cry baby. Didn't she treat you nice?
.... or didn't open her mouth when the city decided not to fund a charter required position, or didn't open her mouth when the city decided to pass a height restriction that is diametrically opposed to a charter amendment we voted on.
She HAS been able to "save" the casino from being torn down and doctored a financing plan that is mostly pie in the sky, especially giving that her marching orders are to give preference to existing tenants. (contributors)
I actually got a wrong number today from a lady in Largo, so I asked her what she thought of her prior city manager. You may be surprised to hear that she approved of "him". Said he was a strong leader and very qualified.
I told her that she was taking heat for how she treats people here and the lady said that that was part of the territory.
While I still don't care for her style, I can't think of any style that anyone could use right now, facing the things we are facing, that could accomplish more than what she is doing.
My nose isn't as brown as yours.... yet, but she knows what she is doing and is going about doing it. Just don't get in her way.
I have better things to do than trying to squeeze into the conference room (what a joke) to hear Suzanne and JoAnn praise her, Scott belittle her and Rene say nothing staying above the fray. Geez.... what will Dr. McVoy say??? Hmmm???
Lynn, you and I agree on some things and disagree vehemently on others. I may be coming around on this one.
No brown nose here--Actually, no one on the Commission wants to hear anything I have to say nor do they vote my way on lots of things. Glad to hear you might be coming around though. :)
Forgot--I wouldn't miss this meting for anything. The Mayor will go after her full throttle. That's the way I am calling it.
Everyone's opinion on the Dais matters. She doesn't belittle anyone like you just did to her talking about foreclosures.
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