"Informed management decisions"

Mayor Elect Richard Berry is being asked over and over,
to tell us what he intends to do, who he intends to keep, and
who he intends to fire.

His answer is always the same, it's too early to tell.
There is too much that he does not yet know, to support
final decision making.

Wait until someone orders all the senior administrators
to tell him the truth about what's going really going on.
Then and only then will he have enough information
to make informed management decisions.

There are no more important questions that Berry can put to his managers than;

1. What are your standards of conduct and competence?
2. How do you hold yourself honestly accountable to them?

He will find many high standards are written, and
very few of them are actually enforced. In particular,
he will find very few of them actually enforced upon
any of the good ol' boys.

He will either share what he finds with us,
candidly, forthrightly and honestly,
or he will not.

In government and public service, the people have
"management" authority over the spending of their power and resources.

How are the people to make "informed management decisions",
if government and public service are not completely, utterly,
and absolutely transparent?

Will Mayor Richard J Berry create transparent accountability
to meaningful standards of conduct and competence,
for politicians and public servants in City Hall?

Whether there will be transparently accountable government
is a management decision. It is a decision that requires no
data gathering, explanation or defense.

Will Mayor Richard J Berry promise to tell us the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

So far, he has not.

He could, if he chose to, share his vision with us,
make his promise to us, at the public forum tonight at
the City Council. He could speak in defense of the
transparency bill Rey Garduno has on the table, and
in defense of transparently accountable government
in general.

He could ask the Council to resurrect the
Ethical Public Service Act, link.

He won't of course, but wouldn't it be cool if he did?