Our report yesterday of another arrest for the City of Florence IT manager Albert Dressler brought some requests to look into some other City managers and department heads. Most notably there has been a kerfuffle about what groups may use meeting rooms in the Florence-Lauderdale Library. If there's a real problem with the director Abby Carpenter's policies, she's not under any department, but a City board.
We recently published a blog encouraging citizens to apply for these various 16 boards/commissions:
The descriptions published by the City are not up to date. At least the Tree Commission has more members than officially authorized. We'll be looking at that body and the money it rakes in annually in the future.
That brings us to actual City of Florence departments. There are 21 separate departments, but often the names tell us little - as just who is over the City IT office.
These are the 21 departments:
* Animal Services
* Arts & Museums
* Building
* Business Development (Really?)
* Cemetery
* City Clerk/Treasurer
* Electricity
* Emergency Management
* Engineering
* Fire & Rescue
* Gas & Water
* Human Resources
* Risk Management
* Mayor/Council
* Municipal Court
* Parks & Recreation
* Planning
* Police
* Utilities Customer Service
* Solid Waste
* Urban Forestry
Several takeaways could be drawn from this information, and we're soliciting public comment, but we noticed something odd in the online lists. It may be minor, but it demonstrates what happens when our mayor doles out financial favors.
Many of our readers expressed their disgust when Andy Betterton paid to have the City's website redone. It was touted as superior to the old, but few agree. The new website's listings for the above departments include a phone number at minimum, but some show the logo for Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Twitter, you say? Did we mean X? Twitter in fact became X in July 2023. Andy's new and improved website came online in October 2024. We have to ask how Andy found this wonderful web designer and why would there be such a blatant mistake? And why does no one maintain this improved asset to the City?
After all, it's certainly much easier to maintain a website than a parking deck. Isn't it?
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Inspector Colombo has just one more thing - After reading Betterton's announcement from last October concerning the new website, we see that Andy doesn't understand the difference between continually and continuously.
We suggest a remedial English course for the mayor. He should have plenty of time next Fall.
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