More "team work" by the Mayor and Vice Mayor - in the Sunshine, of course

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A couple of these candidates for Lake Worth's city manager must have the most gigantic egos or they just don't realize that Lake Worth is one of the most complex cities in the State of Florida... the second guess is, they don't care. Perhaps it was just encouragement from some sitting commissioner that prompted a few candidates to send in an application to be Lake Worth's next CEO.

On the night of December 6, Ronald Clare, former Interim Human Resource Director of Lake Worth, employed for about 5 months, was out in the parking lot waiting for the Stanton ax to fall. Clare had been replaced by Mark Farrington who became our permanent Human Resource Director.

Many people in the chamber were well aware in advance as to what was going to happen to our city manager, Susan Stanton. It was not coincidental that the chamber was packed and that there was even someone with a camera at the back of the room.

I don't know what Clare's gripe was with Stanton, but we can well imagine as he included instructions to Mark Farrington in his application packet about certain Union violations of the City. He is a psychologist but this probably was bad psychology if you are seeking a job. Rumor had it that he gave Stanton a continued hard time never using that psychology degree when it came to communicating with her or understanding that she was the boss.

Clare has no city manager experience. He has never run a Utility. I am rather sure he has never run a budget of $172 million buckeroos or even $30 million for that matter. When he submitted his application and resume, he was working as a motivational speaker. He does have oodles of experience as a Human Resource Director and knows our State laws when it comes to personnel and Union bargaining.

Although he is not in the top 5 candidates, I point this out because both Scott Maxwell and Pam Triolo gave him a vote of confidence to be our city manager. Now why is that? Do you think that they both coincidentally saw his lack of city manager experience and said "That's what we need in Lake Worth--someone with absolutely NO experience to run our city"... or was it just that great minds think alike syndrome? Perhaps it was the simple fact that Clare talked nasty to Maxwell about Stanton and that was a turn on for him? Did both the Mayor and Vice Mayor get mesmerized by Clare's psychological hex?