Jim Peschel, in his recent letter to the editor, had it right when he suggested that the Town Manager meet with the owner of Stillwell's to find a solution for the trash problem outside their place of business. Exeter is not Portsmouth, it is a small town. It is clearly within reason for our Town Manager to leave his office and walk the short distance to Stillwell's. It is also within his authority to work out a solution to the trash issue. At over $100,000 in annual salary (plus generous benefits), it would be refreshing to see Russell Dean deal with some issues personally rather than to hand them off to someone else. In this particular case he is handing it over to the new Economic Development Director??!!
It appears to this citizen that Dean considers himself above such petty issues. Rather he hands it off to someone hired to bring new business to Exeter. How does handling a minor trash issue bring new business to Exeter? As a stretch one might offer that it is building community relations. Really?
Dean seems to be short on personal initiative. This is altogether evident in his lack of developing new initiatives to bend the cost curve downward and save taxpayer dollars.
Just out of curiosity, why are they called public "servants" when they get paid $100k to boss us around? More like Master to me.
ReplyDeleteThis issue is a distracting reoccurrence from last summer. 3-4 trash containers in the Stillwell area were seen overflowing this summer with empty Styrofoam ice cream containers finding their way into the river. Is this situation created on purpose?
ReplyDeleteWhy did Gilman apologize for the truth? Stillwell's caused the problem and that is a fact. Their "offer" to put out their own trash container is no more than Orange Leaf was REQUIRED to do in exchange for more outside chairs.
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