Letter to the Editor
Daily Press
Victorville, ca 92392
Frank Sinatra will forever croon, “Fools rush in, where angels fear to tread”. O.K., on this day, in this time, this reader qualifies. Please allow a quick, amateurish and foolish stab at a possible Victorville “what now” scenario. Let us set aside the blame game, think together and try to apply common sense. Our city must begin now instead of waiting until 2012 and a new Council to give us direction in the hopes of a painless solution. There will be no painless solution, then or now.
Fundamental to meaningful change is for the council to stand up and represent we the people. The Council is the City rather than the paid management staffers. Who is in control? The grand experiment of SCLA and it’s multilayered management has left we the taxpayers to pick up the tab for a very expensive project that has not panned out as advertised. The jobs return has been minimal, despite all the millions of taxpayer money, projections for job gains into the future are minimal, the people say cut our losses.
Council why can’t we give up the “big dog” mentality? Please explore turning over the airport to the County and /or a board run by all the cities of the high desert. In the meantime curtail all expansion at the base, including the treatment plant. Leave power generation to the people who are in that business. We live in Victorville because we don’t want to be Orange County. Small government that efficiently tends to the necessities of the people is our model for this City into the future.
Stop the hiring, stop digging the hole deeper. The renegade city management staff has gotten us into this mess and the Council representing the people now has to clean it up. They have failed and have earned a pay cut in salary and benefits, Council oblige. If they resent the cut and don’t perform give them the liberty to go elsewhere or get fired. Promote from within the ranks of current city employees for management responsibilites. Devalue the expensive professional public employee in favor of someone who can just do the job and is committed to this community. Defund and downsize the bloated city bureacracy or hire someone who will.
Corporations have done this on a regular basis, why not the City of Victorville? Surely this solution is an over implication and many seeming barriers will be advanced to preclude such actions. Yet, this resident has heard of no other solutions. Council hang tough and do what is best now for Victorville.
G. Goslaw
Victorville, Ca
