WORST MEMBER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT

COUNTY MANAGER HARRY JONES

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As CL columnist Tara Servatius so neatly put it, “Would somebody please just fire Harry Jones?” The county manager drew the community’s wrath when he accepted a $38K bonus on the heels of cutting county jobs and denying raises for the rest of his serfs. Add Jones’ slow-on-the-uptake response to the DSS embezzlement scandal, and his attempt to silence a critic by forwarding the critic’s e-mail to the man’s corporate boss, and you get the picture. And who could forget how Jones & Co. waited until nearly the last minute to tell CMS, Parks & Rec, and the Public Library that they needed to gut their budgets? It was a textbook case of poor management, if not outright incompetence, and is reason aplenty for Jones to be shown the door.

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