The resignation of Greenville Public Works Director Wes Anderson, announced Friday, brings to three the number of top level positions soon to be vacant at City Hall. Such a dramatic changing of the guard puts tremendous pressure on the City Council as it conducts a thorough search to find a talented and experienced city manager who will, in turn, make hires for public works and the police department.
With that responsibility comes great opportunity, as the city’s elected officials now have the chance to staff key offices in a manner that can help Greenville build on its reputation as a leader of business and education in eastern North Carolina. This community is very much at a pivot point in its history, and should look honestly at what it is in determining what it aspires to be.
November’s election showed a desire for change in the city’s elected leadership as voters elected a new mayor and at-large member of the City Council in two of the three contested races. The subsequent resignation of the police chief, city manager and public works director, in that order, leaves Greenville with a clean slate in appointing three of the most prominent non-elected positions.
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Editoral misses the point
The Daily Reflector’s boilerplate editorials are wearing thin when the DR dictates its usual cliché approach to city council problems. The draft process goes something like this: “X might be a problem, hence the city council and citizens should carefully consider this problem followed by pulling an opportunity out of the hat to satisfy the city’s business interests.” Neighborhood integrity, quality of life, and creative traffic patterns seem to be outside the DR's consideration. This malicious purge of city professional staff employees caused by a majority of city council members over the past few weeks will guarantee that our city will lose any chance of regaining the dedicated professionalism and superb public service of the city manager, police chief, and public works director. The only “clean slate” that will materialize is that this council majority will hire subservient city employees who can be micromanaged by certain council members and their business patrons.
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