What Does Evans Need?
#1 → Office Hours
Should Town Board Members Have Posted Office Hours?
You are driving to the Evans Town Hall. You see a lemonade stand. You are thirsty so you stop to get a cup. There is a table, a pitcher of lemonade, cups, and a dollar a cup sign but no one is working behind the table. You see a toddler in a sandbox. You walk over and ask about getting a cup of lemonade. The toddler tells you that you need an appointment! You think to yourself that this is no way to run a business.
You get back in your vehicle and head over to the Evans Town Hall.
Once inside the town hall, there is no supervisor. She resigned a half year ago. There is no one in the councilperson’s office. You are wondering why the town hall is run like that lemonade stand. You finally find someone to talk to. You are told you’ll need to make an appointment!
At any other business in Evans, you would be able to find an owner or a manager. How do you properly manage a town government with a $20 million budget when the “managers” are rarely in the town hall? By law, they do not have to show up for work. They do submit their projected work hours which are used to calculate their pension. They are required to work those hours.
The Democrats propose having office hours for the town board members while Republicans would rather have a work from home policy.
Elon Musk has pushed against work-from-home mandates which were instituted by many companies during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. In June 2022, he said that “remote work is no longer acceptable,” and started requiring Tesla workers to spend a minimum of 40 hours per week in the office.May 17, 2023
Businesses and governments fail when managers don’t show up at the office.
The Score Card
Who Wins Point #1?
If you don’t want to show up at the office, you should not run for the town board. No one in Evans is so brilliant that they can run the town without spending time at the town hall.
EvansNY.News awards one point to the Dems!
Dems 1
R’s 0
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QUOTES
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?
THE TRUTH
Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
HONESTY vs HYPOCRISY
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
GOOD INTENTIONS
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
POLITICAL POWER
Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
GOVERNMENT’S VOICE
Government hears only its own voice … It knows it hears only its own voice and yet it deceives itself that it hears the people’s voice.
THE GOAL OF MARXISM
Marxism is not about free speech and debate, it is about domination, repression, indoctrination, conformity, and compliance.
DANGEROUS DECISIONS
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Leadership
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
