An alderman is concerned over how major problems festered in the city's Health Department with seemingly few people aware of the difficulties.
Alderman Bob Mozol wants to survey city employees about the process for reporting problems and complaints to supervisors or the Human Resources Department.
Mozol said he's concerned the existing process is flawed after sitting through a brutal hearing that resulted in Public Health Administrator Janelle Grammer being fired. Several Health Department employees testified that Grammer was incompetent and the department was being run poorly in recent years.
Mozol said it was unfortunate city employees had to put their careers on the line by testifying at an open hearing against their boss. The problems should have been dealt with sooner, he said. Instead, at least one employee who raised concerns about Grammer was retaliated against. "Nothing was getting done," Mozol said.
He requested the survey from the Personnel and Finance Committee. The committee deferred action to do more preliminary work on the survey and to invite other city staff to the meeting.
Mozol said it could take some digging to restore faith in the city's complaint system. The survey could be an important first step in uncovering problems.
"We'll see how deep it goes?" he said.
Far more then the Health Dep I know one city employee who is working over 40 Hr as he has been told to do and no overtime.
ReplyDeleteLet the whinning begin. This is a wasted effort. Most of these city employees want something for nothing - all they are going to do is whine.
ReplyDeleteThe city needs to bring back a Human Resources director.
ReplyDeleteWho can an employee really go to if they have problems? The city attorney Scott Letteney? That's a joke, he's the same person who will be leading the charge against you if something goes wrong.
What about certain alderpersons hanging with Gary Becker and helping him fix up his new property??
ReplyDeleteCan current elected "city officials" still be in his company???
No ethics??
Who are these alderpersons? I agree it does not look good at all for them to be hanging out with Gary Becker.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first good idea Mozol has had...DO it the HR dept. for the city is a wasteful bunch of do nothings.
ReplyDeleteMost businesses have a human resource dept. How is the city covering those tasks?
ReplyDeleteDo we need high paid consultants to design or evaluate the survey? If so I vote no.
First off, there are NO alderman helping Gary Becker out at the house he is rehabilitating. NONE. There is a twin brother of a council member helping out. Second, there are many great, hard working employees at the city, so please do not put everyone in the same category as the employees who abuse the system. Most of the city employees do NOT want something for nothing. The employees who are the biggest whiners, are the same employees who are abusing the system. Period. It is these same employees that need to be dealt with, but usually are not. Why? Good question. I happen to work with someone who is a complainer and one of the biggest abusers. They are always complaining to anyone who will listen - workers, public, aldermen. It is a joke. If the department heads would do their job and write up people, they could then get rid of these abusers and hire people who actually work - instead of saying they do.
ReplyDeleteAnon 6:15 PM hit it on the head. Colt, just because someone told you they were working over 40 hours a week with no overtime, doesn't mean it's true. I would bet money there is more to the story. The City definitey has certain employees who scam the system any chance they get, but they are in the minority. Just like any other place you work, you have good employees and bad employees.
ReplyDeleteMozol is a quack. How he became an alderman is anyone's guess. He was a bad cop and is a bad alderman. Someone is taking you for a ride colt.
ReplyDeleteBob Mozol has the IQ of an eggplant.
ReplyDeleteIf he told me it was raining, I would look out the window to make sure.
Just because Bob perceives a problem, it does not necessarily mean one exists.
Alderman Mozol is a sincere and hardworking alderman who does his homework and takes his job seriously. You can certainly disagree with his positions on issues, but the personal attacks are off the mark.
ReplyDeleteThere is alot of STINK in the city and county departments. These have always been called "gravy" jobs with slow paced work and killer benefits. Let's be honest. How many people apply for government jobs for the purpose of serving the public in some capacity. Not many!
ReplyDeleteI dont think its appropriate for the reporters of racine.post to jump on the blogs and start defending people. Seems unprofessional. A reporter should be neutral.
ReplyDeleteHow would the blogger at 6:15 know for sure who is or isn't helping Gary becker? Seems a little suspicious.
ReplyDeleteAnon 6:15 and Anon 1:24
ReplyDeleteI live near the Becker property and have taken SEVERAL photographs of this Alderman. I Don't have photos of Jeff Coe, but I do have photos of a different Alderman. If I post them somewhere, are you going to kiss my *ss and apologize???
Just curious?
Let me know.
I HATE people that talk stupid and don't know the facts.
Do tell, which alderman do you have photos of?
ReplyDeleteWhile Dustin has the right to voice his opinion, so do the bloggers - and while Racine Post does post news the Urinal Times either doesn't or won't, it is my opinion the Racine Post is turning into one of Rupert Murdoch's tabloids.
ReplyDeletekyle, you are right. All these idiot bloggers have a right to show the world what ignorant assholes they are.
ReplyDeleteI had to look up rupert Murdoch because I didn't know who he was. I see it wasn't meant to be complimentary.
ReplyDeleteAnon 6:15 am - I'd put money on the fact your post is going to be deleted.
Mozol at least has the stones to dig past the smokescreens that city hall puts up. He became an Alderman because a lot of people on the north side voted for him.
ReplyDeleteYou people DO NOT have a right to post whatever you want and Pete and Dustin do. This is their site and you are guests. If you were my guests, you would be shown the door.
This site does belong to Dustin/Pete and they have every right to have what rules they need in place.
ReplyDeleteThat being said the list of those we can say bad things about grows.
We can not ask for by name the head of City Development to be removed even though the calls for more low income housing is being met by more and more restince and the Uptown art project is falling apart. A huge loss in tax dollars.
We can not criticize by name the person at RECDC who is linked with both projects and hands out no bid contracts for over 10K.+
Calling names is not necessary however it would be nice to say Mr. X Mr. Y Ms Z need to go and why.
Will The Post when they get the Mayor's emails and their friends are found out to be doing interesting acts tells us or protect their pals?
Name calling is kind of fun!
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ReplyDeleteNo response you panzy????
Back up your big talk you hack.
The above post was for Anon 6:15 PM, just to be clear.
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