Ever since Kenneth Oakes, Internal Auditor, brought up rampant cell phone abuse by Lake Worth city employees, there has been discussion behind the scenes as to what to do about it. Remember his report on the Code Enforcement department? Upper management took this all to heart and got rid of most of the staff and revamped the entire department. Now it's cell phones.
Instead of re-writing their policy and setting a criteria, they are thinking about a cell phone stipend with employees using their personal phones; it's the easy option. Really. Just think of the massive amount of man hours developing a policy that just says "No personal use of city owned cell phones or you've got some explaining to do." Presently, there are 160 employees with city cell phones, about 40% of the staff.
This is how they are going to manage cell phone abuse? At the moment, cell phones are being used for personal calls during and after business hours. "We will pay for your personal cell phone and give you $X amount of taxpayer dollars and X amount of hours and you can continue to make personal calls during business hours." Are they serious?
Read about it... and this wild idea that will even make it less transparent or even impossible for the public to obtain public information under the Freedom of Information Act. And just when they are trying to get all of the law suits off their table.
We pay these people big dollars to sit around and make these decisions. Only in Lake Wroth. you can't make this stuff up.
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