Friday, December 16, 2016

City contractor parks on flower garden at Cottonwood Creek

From the Inbox:
I took these pictures at 1pm today on Wed. Dec 14th 2016. On the corner of
Vulcan and Encinitas Blvd., city hired workers adjusting the flags decided
to simply park on the flowers and whether or not they were crushed was of
no concern to them. They could've parked and walked to the flagpoles to do
their job. 









The city manager was notified, and the next day the tire tracks were brushed away, but the smashed flowers haven't been replaced.  

Before and after:

21 comments:

  1. I'm confused.....isn't this part of keeping it funky? How different is this from a 101 patron parking in the railroad right of way on top of a coyote bush?

    All kidding aside, this does show an insensitivity toward city assets - namely landscaping. You would think at a minimum they would have raked the ground and pruned the smashed debris. They do have the tools.

    My pappy always told me: "Always leave a place better than you found it".

    - The Sculpin

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    1. It's different because there are no flower gardens in the dirt along the RR tracks, and a patron (private citizen) is different from a contractor hired by the City.

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  2. So what needs to happen here:

    1.) Workers responsible get retrained in how to respect public taxpayer property and do their jobs without doing damage.
    2.) Workers responsible have these photos, taxpayer letters of complaint, and evidence of corrective training put in their files.
    3.) Workers responsible put on notice they lose their jobs if they can't or won't figure out how to correct.
    4.) Workers responsible actually fired if they can't or won't comply.

    That's how it works in the real world. That's how it needs to work at City Hall, too.

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    1. The contractor should train their workers. My guess is that the contractor hires temporary workers, and does not keep records/files.

      The contractor should not be paid until the problem is corrected. The city should always evaluate outside contractors and keep files.

      If your plumber parked on your lawn and ruined it, you would not pay him until he fixes the problem.

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  3. City policy is to keep it crappy..

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  4. City policy is too pretend poor performers are doing a great job.

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  5. I'd want to know a little more before throwing them under the bus.

    Were they doing anything with that crane on the truck at the top of the pole? Were they doing anything that might require heavy equipment brought near the pole (e.g. welding)?

    If they were just putting it there to shorten the walk to hand tools or "just in case" they might need something heavy, then it's just lazy.

    Either way I wouldn't fire anyone over it. But maybe someone needs an attitude adjustment performed by a supervisor.

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    1. "Maybe?" Anyway, we all know that won't happen.

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  6. They were polishing the top of the flagpole, which would require a ladder. That's a real concern in this town, keeping the brass ball polished. They removed the flags and put them at half mast, which begs the next question. Why the hell have the flags been at half mast for 8 days?

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    1. Death of city worker responsibility.

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    2. Ever heard of John Glenn?

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    3. Yeah. He died Dec 8th 2016.

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    4. And flags were ordered half staff for a week.

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    6. What ever happened to that other ape that was shot up in space?

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  7. It is city policy to destroy all flowering vegetational anywhere within the city limits located on city property.
    Go and look at the medians on 101.
    Go and look at the medians on Leucadia Blvd.
    Go and look at the median on Gareden view.
    The city will tell you they water the plants, but 1 cup of water once a week is not sufficient to maintain life in these plants. The city will tell you there is a water shortage, there is not Mr.Muir.
    Killing plants, flowers, schrubs and trees is city policy. If it wasn't, we'd have beautiful landscaping on all city properties. But we don't.
    Don't expect anything nicer than what you have now. And damn if those pesky rains won't allow for a few more flowering plants to thrive, all the more reason to cut the water in its entirety.

    Keep it CRAPPY!!

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    1. Eliminating landscaping, esp. trees, makes drone surveillance much easier. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

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  8. How can there be a water shortage when thousands of new homes are being constructed in San Diego County?

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  9. Because greed and profit will always come before common sense.

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    1. Unfortunate, but absolutely true!

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    2. David Meyer's middle name!

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