Beginning today, the Solid Waste Division will be responsible for all debris complaints to the city. We have established an Environmental Inspection Office at the Public Works Center with two inspectors that will handle this work. The inspectors are Brenda Hull and Scott King and they can be contacted at the main Solid Waste phone line 326-7732 Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Also, any weed complaints and rental inspections will continue to be handled by the Fire Department.
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Great - Brenda is well known to be worthless. We are in trouble.
Also after I posted I got another email that said Scott King was a temporary hire. HR is doing aplications. Then they will test, certify a list, and have the position filled by a permanent employee sometime in March.
Scott is 10 times the employee than Brenda!!! She was a 1/4 of the problems that the NEO had to deal with. Never shows up for work, if she did, it was late. Know at the police department as a door knob. Good luck to Scott, I give this new department no more than 6 months before changes will be made.
I would like to see a referendum or other vote of Davenport residents on how many actually support the dismantling of the NEO and all the trouble, reorganization, and wasted time its caused.
QCI, from what I've heard, a study of dishing out the NEO responsabilities was done by Craig Malin's office. By dumping the NEO and by duplicating their efforts, it is costing the city an additional $250,000 with less effectiveness and no "proactive" efforts, this is now a complaint driven program. This council(6 Alderman)did not do their homework before flushing the NEO Department. There was no plan in action before the July 1st deadline and the city departments are still struggling with the added responsabilities.
The public works was forced to take the trash complaints. Rightly so, because it was the solid waste department that was a times up to a month and a half behind with the NEO assigned cleanups. They caused most of the complaints with the spoiled workers and cleanups took a back seat to all other efforts per Tom Byland. The NEO had 10 inspectors and now we have two, what do you think will happen now?
The police department is handling the abandoned vehicle complaints, of course complaint driven. Just one person handles the public and private tagging and towing when there was 10 inspectors before. And if she has an appeal, the day is wasted in hearings or she doesn't show to the appeals, the city (we the people) pay for the tow and storage. The towing officer also works with the special ops group when elected officials come to town. Again, tagging and towing comes to a halt.
The fire department has asked the council for 4 additional inspectors to cover the rental housing program. That would bring the total to eight inspectors just, two short of the gutted NEO Depart, doing rental inspections when they used to handle trash, abandoned vehicles, and grass/weeds, not to forget enforcing zoning codes too. The fire companies are over taxed with medical and fire calls, I personally do not want them walking through rental complexes when they should be responding to emergency calls. I value their four minute response times when it comes to my family.
What we have witnessed is six alderman that, without thought to public safety, bent over and took one for the special interest groups that run this city. I am ashamed to have witnessed this travesty and hope the next elected council corrects the situation.
And don't forget that this plan pretty much came out of nowhere at the last minute, with little to no public input.
I endorsed Lynn last year in my 2005 election picks, but unless he's running against Pachino Hill or something I probably won't this time.
That was 2 years ago I guess.
Well, Pachini Hill certainly is living in one of the slum rentals he supports.
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