[Vision2020] Oh, My EYES :-( Plumber's Butt, the UI, and AlliedBarton

[Donovan Arnold]

Roger,
 
If there is a way to waste more money, UI will find it even if they have to hire an administrator to contract a firm to outsource a private company to select a board to appoint an exploratory committee to discover it. 
 
Donovan Arnold

--- On Fri, 4/1/11, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:


From: lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Oh, My EYES :-( Plumber's Butt, the UI, and AlliedBarton
To: "Saundra Lund" <v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm>, vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 11:24 AM


The UI is real good at wasting money. They used hired a new Dean of the Graduate School from outside. the interim Dean was just fine.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "Saundra Lund" v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:50:52 -0700
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Oh, My EYES  :-(  Plumber's Butt, the UI,and AlliedBarton

> Perhaps someone at the UI should PLEASE let whoever is hiring those fine
> hard-working AlliedBarton security professionals (!) know that Moscow
> actually has an ordinance prohibiting plumber's butt.  Ordinance 2002-13.
> 
> In all fairness, I didn't actually see the dude's "cleft of the buttocks" on
> the weekend, for which I'll be eternally grateful.  But, it was horrifyingly
> close & *very* unprofessional.  And it ***definitely*** wasn't a positive
> reflection on the UI.
> 
> OTOH, I've seen MPD officers on campus many times over the years, and they
> always looked professional & behaved professionally as well, which
> apparently isn't always the case with the AB employees.
> 
> I've heard through the grapevine that the brilliant <sarcasm> decision to
> hire AB to save money is actually costing more than anticipated.  I can't
> say as I'm surprised because that often seems to be the case at the UI:
> things that are supposed to save money wind up costing more, especially when
> it comes to contracts with the private sector.  In the past, I found it very
> easy to deal with the UI with respect to public records requests, but that's
> unfortunately not been the case since Kent Nelson was hired as General
> Counsel.  Other than finding creative ways to thwart public records
> requests, I'm not exactly sure what it is he does since the UI contracts out
> so much of its legal work, but making access to public records difficult if
> not impossible certainly has the bonus of making sure we-the-taxpayers
> remain ignorant about whether all these cost-savings measures are actually
> saving money or losing it.
> 
> So much for the UI's pledge for transparency & accountability following the
> deplorable history of serious financial mismanagement.  Seriously, though,
> Pollyanna me thought that "pledge" was going to last longer than a New York
> minute.
> 
> 
> 
> Saundra Lund
> Moscow, ID
> 
> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
> nothing.
> ~ Edmund Burke
> 
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