I'm trying very hard to respect the mayor of Wentzville, Nickolas Guccione, but every day I am presented with more and more challenges to that endeavor. I'm sure I hold the office of Mayor in great esteem, however King Nickolas is killing me with his constant ideas on better ways to waste city time, resources, and tax-payer dollars.
This past Sunday I wrote a piece that has yet to be posted because I was waiting for some information about his wasting city money. The information has come now, but I won't post it until after I relieve myself of a more recent burden King Nickolas has placed on my mind and the tax-payers pockets. This guy, who calls himself the CEO of Wentzville is in reality the most inane, unlettered individual to ever claim the honorable position of mayor.
It has been stated numerous times that Guccione has an inability to communicate or literate in any capacity of the office. Today, I learned that our mighty Potentate has a problem with his memory, which I suspected for some time. He cannot remember what was said in the meetings he has with his staff. I always figured that he couldn't read his own notes, but in actuality, he doesn't take notes—he relies on his memory, which has undoubtedly begun to fail him.
When one of his staff tries to remind him of what he said, or was said to him, he sometimes doesn't believe them. I don't know why, but he went to our celebrated City Attorney, Paul Rost to see what he could do about his new-found problem. Rost advised him to take his Administrative Assistant, Ms. Lisa Etling to the meetings to take notes for him. I'm sure Rost was referring to his weekly, Thursday morning staff meetings, but Guccione has decided to take Ms. Etling along with him to take notes anytime he drops in the offices of his staff or visa-versa. If you wanted to jog your memory, wouldn't it be cheaper for you to buy a pocket recorder, Mr. Mayor? Hell, the City might even pop for one if you ask nicely. I'd even buy you one if you would agree to release your Administrative Assistant from her shackles and let her do her job.
So here we are, Mayor Guccione has Ms. Etling following him around city hall writing down every word he utters or that is uttered to him, during all of his conversations with the city's directors. It might not be as bad as it sounds because he's only at city hall one day a week and he's out campaigning half of that day. He has dumped all of the tasks of the city administrator on the directors and now he's taking away precious time from Ms. Etling. A word to all city employees, don't stand around in one place very long because Guccione will pile some more of his duties on you. When you have a man like Guccione in power who has the corporate mentality of a gnat, there's never enough slaves to satisfy the overseer.
With everyone in city hall doing Guccione's work, and that of the city administrator (which was assigned to him), what is left for him to do but strut and puff? Every initiative he's brought to the Board of Aldermen, has or will cost the city money, and now he's taking more time away from city staff to do another job he should be doing. C'mon Nickolas, at least make an effort to take your own damn notes.
I'll be back real soon with more of King Nickolas' spend, spend, spend trend way of doing business at city hall, stay tuned.
So here we are, Mayor Guccione has Ms. Etling following him around city hall writing down every word he utters or that is uttered to him, during all of his conversations with the city's directors. It might not be as bad as it sounds because he's only at city hall one day a week and he's out campaigning half of that day. He has dumped all of the tasks of the city administrator on the directors and now he's taking away precious time from Ms. Etling. A word to all city employees, don't stand around in one place very long because Guccione will pile some more of his duties on you. When you have a man like Guccione in power who has the corporate mentality of a gnat, there's never enough slaves to satisfy the overseer.
With everyone in city hall doing Guccione's work, and that of the city administrator (which was assigned to him), what is left for him to do but strut and puff? Every initiative he's brought to the Board of Aldermen, has or will cost the city money, and now he's taking more time away from city staff to do another job he should be doing. C'mon Nickolas, at least make an effort to take your own damn notes.
I'll be back real soon with more of King Nickolas' spend, spend, spend trend way of doing business at city hall, stay tuned.
In my memory, which is pretty good, no other mayor has ever had to bring an assistant to the staff meetings for the purpose of taking notes. As a matter of fact, most mayors didn't even attend staff meetings, that's probably why they are called "staff meetings."
ReplyDeleteIf everyone in city hall is covering the CA's job and taking care of Nick's duties, please explain: What exactly does the mayor of Wentzville do?
ReplyDeleteKing Nickolas does that which is befitting royalty—anything which pleases him.
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