I hope our new city manager will not tolerate the incessant whining of his staff and require active problem-solving, instead.
I am referring to Street Superintendent Mike Somsen’s complaining that he can’t find enough snowplow drivers and the public will just have to settle for inferior service this winter. He needs 14 drivers and has only five to start the season, so residents will just have to wait for two days to get their streets plowed.
I don’t imagine employers and store owners will be very sympathetic when their workers are late or absent from work because they can’t get out of their streets!
With over 600 full-time employees, tell me the city can’t find nine workers who can be cross-trained to drive a snowplow. How about putting some supervisors out on the road? What happened to the “let’s get ’er done” attitude and “all hands on deck” approach the city used to exemplify? Certainly, city taxpayers deserve better.
Michael Brennan
Durango
