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For Immediate Release
"Sick Time
is Tip of Iceberg"
HAVERHILL, MA, July 16, 2008
- It took the City Council
to uncover what appears to be sick time abuse in parts of the
School System and some Municipal Departments. On the School-side,
the Mayor, as School Committee Chairman, should be holding the
School Superintendent's feet to the fire on such matters, without
intervention from the City Council. For the City-side, the buck
stops at the Mayor's office as the CEO of the City. That's how
the private sector and effective City governments work. The Administration
should be on top of this in a timely manner; it is not the intended
role of the legislative branch.
One particularly disturbing aspect
of this is that the Public Works Department employees were identified
by the Mayor as abusing sick time, along with the Fire Department.
Considering the alleged abuses in the Public Works Department
which came to light early last year, it is unconscionable that
it would take the supposed abuses of the School Department to
trigger the Mayor's determination that there may be sick time
abuse in the Public Works Department.
As Mayor, I would immediately
implement a proactive performance management system, with appropriate
accountability across the City. I will have timely reporting
on the status of performance indicators, including productivity
and sick time use. Consistent monitoring will insure that abuses
and negative trends such as the alleged Public Works Department
scandal do not occur. Further, I will establish performance objectives
for each Department, such as the desired emergency response time
by Police and Firefighters for each neighborhood and also establish
performance objectives for each employee, making it clear when
individual abuses occur and not casting all in a bad light.
My campaign has just begun to
help formulate a flexible long range plan for the City, which
will seek broad citizen, business and elected official participation,
to include a performance management system. Your city government
will be accountable with measurable results. Haverhill's taxpayers
deserve the greatest value at the lowest cost and that's what
you'll get in a Michitson administration.
For more information, please
visit www.michitson.com.
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John Michitson
Haverhill Mayoral Candidate
119 Kenoza Street
Haverhill, Massachusetts 01830
www.michitson.com |
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