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marcofriend writes:

in response to lauralbi1:

Dear Editor: I respectfully disagree with this decision by our City Manager regarding Building Inspectors. The citizens living on Marco Island voted, long before Mr./Dr. Riviere was in his position, to become a City. Not one half a City, not 95% a City, but a City with it's own City services.
If the City Manager saw a problem with budgets and manpower, the fees could have been raised to cover the difference, no matter how much. Or, maybe a manpower reduction would have been appropriate, especially given the fact that there does not seem to be an issue of travel time, now that the tasks will be covered from Naples.
This is a VERY serious breach of the mandate that was given to City Leaders on what we define as a "City" !!!
I am very disappointed. I suggest we do the same with the City Manager position and let Mr. Moss conduct all City Manager day to day business for both Marco Island and Naples. We will call him a County Manager and pay him an incremental increase to cover the extra work. This will save much more money and would seem to not create much of a backlog.
The City Manager has chosen to rectify a financial issue by redefining the meaning of a City to all of it's residents. Is this even allowed by Charter ??
Ed Issler

Mr Issler,
While I agree with your post as it shows our City is out of control, it is hard to believe that you would be so vehement against this as you always say that our elected City Council who manages our City Manager speaks for all of the people and we should always agree to everything they do. All of a sudden they have made a bad decision and because you disagree, they are all wrong. Well, welcome to the real world with people not always happy with what our City does. I do agree that our City Manager has overstayed his welcome and should be let go with someone with City Government competency put in his place. Hopefully you are back into the fold and agree that everything done at City Hall is not right and just, with the only reasoning being that the voters have spoken.

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