Five Minute Updates.

[|- Amherst Stakeholder -|]

I think that each Department head/director in the Town Of Amherst should be required to provide a 5 to 10 minute update at the podium at one evening town board meeting each and every month. The updsate would include a briefing and/or status report on the top activities and progress within their department since the last update.

As it is now, the public really doesn't get provided with what is going on.

I think this would help. Why wouldn't a department boss want to do such a thing?

[PaulJonson]

Bring it up at a board meeting.

[WNYresident]

how many departments are there?

If each were give 10 minutes how much time from the actual meeting would be used?

[PaulJonson]

how many departments are there?

If each were give 10 minutes how much time from the actual meeting would be used?

Longer and more boring than they already are.

[Micheal Joseph]

I think that each Department head/director in the Town Of Amherst should be required to provide a 5 to 10 minute update at the podium at one evening town board meeting each and every month. The updsate would include a briefing and/or status report on the top activities and progress within their department since the last update.

As it is now, the public really doesn't get provided with what is going on.

I think this would help. Why wouldn't a department boss want to do such a thing?

Each department should already be giving status reports to the TB. Why not post these reports on the official web site, so that anyone who would like to see them can?

It would not take up the extra time at a board mtg, but still be available to the general public.

Micheal

[left wing]

Each department should already be giving status reports to the TB. Why not post these reports on the official web site, so that anyone who would like to see them can?

It would not take up the extra time at a board mtg, but still be available to the general public.

Micheal

hahahahahaha.... I know of 2 departrment heads who submitted monthly reports for years and no one ever read them. So, they stopped. This idea will just be another bureaucratic requirement that no one will pay any attention to. This is why there is so much paperwork and bureaucracy in government.

[Gandalf]

hahahahahaha.... I know of 2 departrment heads who submitted monthly reports for years and no one ever read them. So, they stopped. This idea will just be another bureaucratic requirement that no one will pay any attention to. This is why there is so much paperwork and bureaucracy in government.

I bet that those 2 department heads are no longer working for the town.

[Micheal Joseph]

hahahahahaha.... I know of 2 departrment heads who submitted monthly reports for years and no one ever read them. So, they stopped. This idea will just be another bureaucratic requirement that no one will pay any attention to. This is why there is so much paperwork and bureaucracy in government.

First, then you are saying Grelick did not read the reports, and she did not mandate that dept heads not give reports.

How can one run a business, town without knowing what the depts are doing?

This also goes to the present TB and supervisor.

Micheal

[PaulJonson]

If they do add this segment into Town Board meetings I will have to reconfigure my DVR to make sure I tape the entire board meeting.

[etc]

I remember clearly that Grelick had a 'Breakfast with the Boss' monthly meeting with the Dept. heads. It was the other bored members who NEVER read or responded to the dept heads reports. Grelick was always on top of any problems that the dept heads encountered. In light of this incompetant administration, you should all realize how well-run the town WAS!

[left wing]

If they do add this segment into Town Board meetings I will have to reconfigure my DVR to make sure I tape the entire board meeting.

Figure on about 12 hours....

[left wing]

I remember clearly that Grelick had a 'Breakfast with the Boss' monthly meeting with the Dept. heads. It was the other bored members who NEVER read or responded to the dept heads reports. Grelick was always on top of any problems that the dept heads encountered. In light of this incompetant administration, you should all realize how well-run the town WAS!

Yes, she did. And department heads were comfortable talking to her. AND she responded when they called! Imagine a world like that.

[Micheal Joseph]

I remember clearly that Grelick had a 'Breakfast with the Boss' monthly meeting with the Dept. heads. It was the other bored members who NEVER read or responded to the dept heads reports. Grelick was always on top of any problems that the dept heads encountered. In light of this incompetant administration, you should all realize how well-run the town WAS!

hahahahahaha.... I know of 2 departrment heads who submitted monthly reports for years and no one ever read them. So, they stopped. This idea will just be another bureaucratic requirement that no one will pay any attention to. This is why there is so much paperwork and bureaucracy in government.

There seems to be a contradiction between the 2 of you. Who is right?

Seems to me, Grelick 1) did not read written reports, and did not make the dept heads submit them 2) When she could not make her meetings, her asst. Sup did not read them or request them.

In either case, when dept heads do not submit wriiten status reports, it is very hard to hold them accountable.

Seems she was not as great of a manager (superidor) as some people think she was.

Micheal - My observation of items posted by those "who are in the know"

[Liberty]

There seems to be a contradiction between the 2 of you. Who is right?

Seems to me, Grelick 1) did not read written reports, and did not make the dept heads submit them 2) When she could not make her meetings, her asst. Sup did not read them or request them.

In either case, when dept heads do not submit wriiten status reports, it is very hard to hold them accountable.

Seems she was not as great of a manager (superidor) as some people think she was.

Micheal - My observation of items posted by those "who are in the know"

Grelick was in constant communication with all the departments, I remember her producing reports from various departments at meetings throughout town, I even remember her producing her own report on the Town Clerk's Office. Communication happened on a daily basis.

[|- Amherst Stakeholder -|]

Each department should already be giving status reports to the TB. Why not post these reports on the official web site, so that anyone who would like to see them can?

It would not take up the extra time at a board mtg, but still be available to the general public.

Micheal

I agree, post them on the internet for all to see.

Why wouldn't a Department head (or their subordinates, for that matter) not want this done? The only reason that I guess this isn't being done is because the Town Of Amherst employees do not want it.