For ten agonizing months we heard Villa Hills Mayor Mike Martin whine about all the problems he "inherited" related to the city website. He described the way it was managed as "sloppy". He squandered taxpayer dollars bringing in at least two computer companies to address that issue.
October's council meeting revealed the darndest thing. After ten months of moaning, Martin announced that the clerk and police officer who were uploading information to the website before his ascendancy to "CEO" will resume doing so. The second darndest thing? The fabulist mayor made that announcement with a straight face.
The Martin Chronicles does have three questions for the city's misleader-in-chief.
1. Why not have your interim city clerk handle the website duties? The taxpayers are shelling out a fortune to employ her. At least we are told she still works there. Many residents say they haven't seen her for months. A couple even suggested putting her face on a milk carton. Is she such a blockhead that she can't be trained to do even a little work?
2. If the interim city clerk is completely untrainable, how about your $47.50 clerk/bookkeeper Cordelia Schaber? No. Never mind. Now we can't keep a straight face.
3. Are you seriously considering spreading out your already-depleted police department even more by giving this officer website responsibilities? The Martin Chronicles has already reported the explosion in overtime for the PD's skeleton crew. Now this?
Keep the faith, readers. It's only going to get worse. You just have to laugh.
