Mayor and Town Council,

I must say that you ( all of you) disgust me at this point. We as the town citizens are under the impression that you are intending to dismiss our latest town manager and hire a new one. You must have been planning this for quite some time. We don’t know what your current motives are but I can tell you from our side they are disingenuous. What does this say about the 5 of you. Not very good things I can tell you that if you don’t already know. I do know that you folks chose Marianna to be the Assistant Town Manager and then the Town manager. It was your choice and no one else’s.

This was the third town Manager in almost as many years. What does this say about our town council? I know what it does not say. It does not say that the past town managers are all that bad ,they are what they were and you have blinders. What is does say is that all of you town council members are incapable of the task of hiring a Town Manager. You are incapable of properly vetting the person applying for the job. In other words you are incompetent in performing one of the most important jobs of your position.

I hope you will not stick us for another Golden Parachute separation package.

I am to the point where we there needs to be some type of Legal intervention through the courts. I believe we could get some injunction if we can provide a merit.

So on the other hand if the above is not true then what you did was hire Marianna to run all the upper paid staff out of town either through elimination of positions or though a type of harassment. Harassment to the point where you demand a person to take on the workload of several other full time positions and demand the same level of work. To me that is outrageous. I realize that there is a certain amount of waste in Government but to demand what was cruel and probably illegal if challenged by the worker.

Take Johnny Goetz’s position he was hired as a inspector. At the time of his departure he took on code enforcement, top inspector, Trash, and other jobs.  I am sure that it will take several new employees to fulfill the tasks Johnny performed. I do not say this because I like Johnny , I say this because I know it to be true. All of you know I bucked heads with Johnny plenty. What I learned and thought is that Johnny was here to stay. So I figured out that I needed to work with him instead of against him. I sat in on meetings in order to make the changes so that all of the contractors would be on the same page of the code and in compliance. This was working but know Johnny is gone. I have to start over. There is a new code coming in January and I will bet you there will be once again a great level of lack of enforcement and compliance.

Johnny , Ray , Mark, and others made far less mistakes costing the town than that of the Airport Director had. Yet in the case of the Airport director you would not fire him early on. In a small town we do not want your current style of management. It is abusive, arrogant and will get us into trouble again.

Lastly if the rumors are correct that you intend to hire Tom Cage I strongly advise against this. I have nothing against Tom as a person or a businessman. However I feel he lacks the education and qualifications as Manager of Government operations. What we do not need is a person who does not know the law fluently as to the running of the local government. That is how things get screwed up and loose 40 plus Million. I can’t emphasize that enough.

Martin Kleinbard