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But, He's Qualified Already
What is missing from this character aspersion tossed is that at least one other candidate was 100% qualified, familiar, experienced and a town resident who used to work for the town, but went
in another direction in same sort of work. So now, we have to say he screwed up the Sewer Dept? From my recollection, it wasn't the sewer department that was screwed up, but the extremely troublesome Water Department lead by some real unscrupulous commissioners such as Aiello, Cleggett, McSweeney and the likes. That's 200% true because of the state consent decree against the town that has cost us millions to correct due to their lack of attention to our water system needs. Get your facts correct before chucking aspersions at other candidates for this job.
By Bernie
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don't blame bernie;blame me
one of the finalists for the job
Jan 12, 2005
worked for the town awhile back.his name is joe toma.good luck to tom.
-By Anonymous
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funny you're the first to say
Jan 15, 2005
anything bad about that candidate here.
I'll have to wait and see if more join you here.by the way,wasn't he a town meeting member then as well?and a water and sewer commissioner by town election after he left the town? do you think that was because he did the job well or because he was popular?have you been a member long enough to remember him well enough if you bump into him at shaws or stop & shop to tell him you tarnished his integrity here? i bumped into him awhile ago and mentioned to him tom was vying for the same position.he told me good luck to him.that's what was conveyed here at this post.
-By Anonymous
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State, feds threaten to take $$$
State, feds threaten to take cash from Quincy if mayor's pick is hired; Officials say he isn't qualified for housing job
By CHRISTOPHER WALKER
The Patriot Ledger 1/13/05
QUINCY - State and federal officials are threatening to withhold money from the embattled Quincy Housing Authority if it hires a candidate favored by Mayor William Phelan as the agency's executive director.
Phelan has pushed for the housing authority to hire Assistant City Solicitor Jay MacRitchie for the long-vacant executive director post. But MacRitchie has no housing background, one of the job's requirements, and members of the housing authority changed the qualifications for him by eliminating the housing experience mandate.
In strongly worded letters on the eve of interviews with finalists, the state and federal housing departments said the political pressure has tainted the process and no state money could be used to pay a candidate who did not meet minimal qualifications.
?‘?‘We have watched as the Board of Commissioners have voted to ignore minimum qualifications ... in order to include a candidate in the interview process who does not meet the minimum qualifications,'' Robert P. Cwieka regional acting director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, wrote to the housing authority. ?‘?‘It is our understanding the addition of this candidate to the interview roster has led to the perception that the selection process will not be based on the candidate's qualifications and, consequently, some qualified candidates have withdrawn from consideration.''
The housing authority's board of commissioners was set yesterday to interview six finalists but postponed any action until officials could respond to the critical letters from HUD, which provides $13.2 million a year for federal programs, and the state Department of Housing and Community Development.
In their letter, state officials said they ?‘?‘expected'' the authority to reopen the search process for the job.
State Associate Director for Public Housing and Rental Assistance Marc Slotnick stated in the letter that the Quincy Housing Authority is in such disarray that it needed to hire someone ?‘?‘that far exceeds the minimum qualifications'' for the job, including several years of experience in public housing administration.
Slotnick stated that if the authority's board picked a candidate who didn't meet minimum job requirements the state agency would withhold its share of salary payments to the new executive director and that HUD would not pick up the full tab. Half the approximate $100,000 salary is paid with state funds, half with federal money.
By one of the smith brothers
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Fact of Life
It's a fact of life that it's who you know, not what you know. I work in the private sector, and while I'd like to be idealistic, the same crap happens there, too. You almost never get a job if you are a qualified nobody, but you have a better chance if you are an unqualified somebody. So why is everyone so incensed when stuff like this happens?
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