May 24, 2009

The Citizen

Letter to the Editor

Request for Name Withheld attached

 

The popular Curator of the Worth Historical Museum who has been with the Park

 

District for over 10 years has been forced out of her position by neglect of the

 

 

Worth Park District Board of Commissioners to perform their duties and

 

responsibilities which they were elected to do.  They gave away their authority to

 

hire and fire to the Director.

 

 

Can you imagine working under a policy which has been in place, is in writing but

 

which your boss has the ability to change whenever you are the target.  Our Park

 

Board Commissioners are allowing this. 

 

 

Can you imagine getting a budget for your department, planning an assigned

 

program with this budget in mind, getting signed contracts and your boss says

 

after you have worked on it for 3 months that you are spending too much money

 

and cuts the money back to what you planned to spend but declares that this is 

 

the sum you will have to spend for the entire next 12 months. 

 

 

Can you imagine always having your work ridiculed.

 

 

This kind of behavior sounds like harassment to us and our Park Board of

 

Commissioners is allowing this to happen.  All employees of the Park are subject

 

to this kind of management making for a very unhappy work place.  Now you                                                        

 

know why Park programs are less than satisfactory.  And where is our taxpayer 

 

money actually going?

                                                           

 

There is a chain of command for employees to use when they have problems but

 

it doesn't work.. It was tried but guess what happened.  The complaints got to the

                                                            

Park Board DOA (Dead On Arrival) and have never been seen or heard about

 

again.

 

 

 

                                                                          WPD Taxpayers for Fairness