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THE OTHER SIDE <br /> <br />Received at meeting of: ~¢_-- <br />Date: ~'- /~'~O ~ <br /> <br />Item No,: <br /> <br /> There are always two sides to every subject of contention. <br />Last week I, as speaker for the Friday Morning Club - an active, <br />twenty-five year old civic group of Riverside, sat in amazement <br />as one after another individual spoke against a majority vote of <br />the Council which had dismissed the then city manager. For <br />months and months, after deep study of city activities, the <br />question had kept arrising in Friday Morning meetings, "Why <br />hasn't the Council fired the city manager?." There were <br />numerous reasons for their questions, but the most blatant was <br />the fact that persons in high work positions in the city, such as <br />city managers of departments, had resigned. While only one of <br />these, the airport manager, had "guts" enough (to use my <br />grandson's vocabulary), to say "why" they were quitting, there <br />were others who personally and quietly mentioned their <br />reasons for resigning. The reasons many gave were the same <br />-- Work which they' had enjoyed for years, had become <br />unbearable because of completely unreasonable demands from <br />above. One individual, I will never name, told me just ONE <br />reason he left was. that the city manager had ordered him to <br />include construction of two extremely expensive projects, that <br />were not included in his department's budget because ........... <br />........ wanted them. This individual that the city manager <br />named, who wanted the projects, is well known in the city and a <br />close friend of the city manager. <br /> <br /> <br />
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