Job Qualifications For City Workers

 

It's interesting that City Councilman Ed (Moe) Zastawny is pining on the Clark County Chatter about the lack of qualifications of the newly hired "Green Team" manager by mayor Mike Moore. It seems that Ed Z. (Moe) would like someone with a horticulture degree or certification to lead the newly formed "Green Team"... a qualification the new manager doesn't have.

 The BatBlog wonders just what qualifications an insurance salesman like Moe or for that matter any member of the current City Council has to manage and budget millions of dollars of tax dollars ??? The answer is NONE. The current council which consists of an insurance salesman, a former busboy, a fireman, a florist, etc, etc. has absolutely NO qualifications or experience managing a large financial budget like the duties are of a city council. It appears that Moe is being quite the hypocrite in complaining about the new manager's lack of qualifications because it appears that the new manager is just as qualified if not more for his job as Moe is for his.....

 As the BatBlog has pointed out before and it's unfortunate, but in politics the most qualified or best person for a particular office doesn't always win. The same is true in a vast majority of city workers where "who you know" is the major requisite for attaining a position. Over the years most police, fireman and city workers were hired through some connection to the people or party in power . This is not to diminish the job they may have done,  but most of the time more "qualified" people were overlooked. That's just the nature of the political beast.

 Let's be honest politics and elections at the city level are nothing more than a popularity contests. If you can kiss enough  asses  or blow smoke up enough people's ass you can be elected...Qualifications and experience mean nothing. So the next time Ed (Moe) Z. complains about someone's lack of qualifications for a particular city job he needs to think about the asses he kissed and the smoke he blew to get his job on the city council....and be thankful...