Hard To Fire A City Manager: PATTON

Ottawa is failing its residents in so many ways and has been doing so for many years, as far back as the beginning of Jim Watson’s reign of errors. What would benefit the city is to hire a private consulting company to look at the various issues and determine the cause of all the problems, eg. how was the city manager chosen, and start to address them one by one. Unfortunately I don’t think we can count on the people currently leading the charge at city hall to admit there are any problems.

Before you go yakking about “firing the city manager” I’d suggest you have a tight look at the C.M.’s job description and what Mayor / Council expectations are for that role / person. As a former City Manager, I’d say there is EVERY possibility she is meeting or exceeding those requirements.We may be unhappy with – just about everything – at City Hall. But you should not dump on the people who are doing the best that they can with the job they were hired to do.