The Ruffino Administration: "Had Enough Yet?"

[mark blazejewski]

Here are the significant governing priorities, as written in seemingly order of priority, that candidate Ruffino articulated in 2019...



Where is the the very first priority, the Budget Duties Stipend for the Supervisor, or for that matter, the priority of employee morale, mentioned anywhere in the above comments?...



Did Mr. Ruffino take the "happiness" of Ms. Barbaro and Mr. Brown into consideration in preparing his "employee morale" program?

Just askin'.

The first priority was a stipend for the Supervisor, and the intention to give priority attention to the morale of our paid employees?

What about public safety, infrastructure, concerns about over-development, taxes, and the new Dog facility?

SMH!

[WNYresident]

He put it out to bid and had 30 applicants.

So who did the town get to chose from?

Just curious and I'm not implying anything. Did the current supervisor know the person who was hired before he was supervisor? There is nothing wrong with that either. I'm just wondering.

I'm surprised he didn't go to an actual executive hiring agency.

[mark blazejewski]

He put it out to bid and had 30 applicants.

So who did the town get to chose from?

Just curious and I'm not implying anything. Did the current supervisor know the person who was hired before he was supervisor? There is nothing wrong with that either. I'm just wondering.

I'm surprised he didn't go to an actual executive hiring agency.

If you are talking about Mr. Brown's replacement, I know that she held a similar position in Clarence Res, and that is really about it.

I am rather perplexed about Ruffino's holding that, if I understand the article correctly, Brown and him were on "different wave lengths," with Ruffino suggesting that "you just can't reach into the taxpayers pockets for everything." Until now, I always understood Mr. Brown to have been cautiously conservative on fiscal matters in the world of budget preparation.

If it was and remains true that Brown was and remains a "liberal" on fiscal matters, why did it take the 18-year incumbent dinosaur so long to speak out?

( Besides, I always thought that it was the elected Town Council that ultimately decides the budget and the tax increases?)

In any event, in connection with the issue of "employee morale," I have concerns about the way in which Mr. Brown was allegedly treated.

People whom I know, have complete trust in, and respect for, including Supervisor Coleman, spoke, and continue to speak, very highly of him, and that Mr. Brown deserved much, much better treatment; my inference of course.

[WNYresident]

If you are talking about Mr. Brown's replacement, I know that she held a similar position in Clarence Res, and that is really about it.

Anyone know why they are not in the same position in Clarence any longer?

[gorja]

He put it out to bid and had 30 applicants.

So who did the town get to chose from?

Just curious and I'm not implying anything. Did the current supervisor know the person who was hired before he was supervisor? There is nothing wrong with that either. I'm just wondering.

I'm surprised he didn't go to an actual executive hiring agency.

No, he did not know the hiree

He did hire someone with 17 years experience as Director of Finance in the Town of Clarence.
I believe after the developer Casilio was elected supervisor in Clarence, he chose his own Director of Finance.

[WNYresident]

No, he did not know the hiree

He did hire someone with 17 years experience as Director of Finance in the Town of Clarence.
I believe after the developer Casilio was elected supervisor in Clarence, he chose his own Director of Finance.

Don't you find that odd? If someone has 17 years of experience and is doing a good job why would the next supervisor pick someone else? ( I hear someone in the back yelling out.... "the new person is better!!!" or "it's the new supervisors decision!!!" ) That's possible but you wouldn't know the current person wasn't good if you didn't work with them for a short period of time.

I have learned over the years the people who usually know what is going on are not the ones sometimes in charge. It's the secretary, the long time assistant and/or employees like that.

[mark blazejewski]

Don't you find that odd? If someone has 17 years of experience and is doing a good job why would the next supervisor pick someone else?

Perhaps it is because one needs to know how to make a town's bond payment in a timely and proper way?

Under normal circumstances, a new Supervisor would need some time to acquire its governing legs, but I am inclined to be less patient in this case. Did not Mr. Ruffino serve on that exact same Town Council for eighteen years, and style himself as the "most qualified and experienced candidate for supervisor?"

For all of his touted experience and insights, I am not impressed with his purported decision not to reach out to Mr. Brown to retain his services.

Moreover, I still have concerns about this new "grant writer" and hope that his decision does not impact the construction of the much-needed new dog facility.

I hope Mr. Ruffino gets his act together in anticipation of Union negotiations, lest the Town go to the metaphorical poor house.

[WNYresident]

Moreover, I still have concerns about this new "grant writer" and hope that his decision does not impact the construction of the much-needed new dog facility.

Why is it needed? There are many volunteer groups who handle this type of stuff