[Vision2020] Oh, My EYES :-( Plumber's Butt, the UI, and AlliedBarton

[Craine Kit]

 From what I've read in the paper, the AB security professionals are  
doing what I did back in the early 1980s -- walk around campus at  
night, rattling door knobs, and sniffing for smoke. I did that as  
Irregular Help, with an hourly wage slightly above that of the IH  
janitors and groundskeepers with no benefits. That system was way  
cheaper than the AB contract.

Kit Craine





On Mar 31, 2011, at 9:50 PM, Saundra Lund wrote:

> Perhaps someone at the UI should PLEASE let whoever is hiring those  
> fine
> hard-working AlliedBarton security professionals (!) know that Moscow
> actually has an ordinance prohibiting plumber's butt.  Ordinance  
> 2002-13.
>
> In all fairness, I didn't actually see the dude's "cleft of the  
> buttocks" on
> the weekend, for which I'll be eternally grateful.  But, it was  
> horrifyingly
> close & *very* unprofessional.  And it ***definitely*** wasn't a  
> positive
> reflection on the UI.
>
> OTOH, I've seen MPD officers on campus many times over the years,  
> and they
> always looked professional & behaved professionally as well, which
> apparently isn't always the case with the AB employees.
>
> I've heard through the grapevine that the brilliant <sarcasm>  
> decision to
> hire AB to save money is actually costing more than anticipated.  I  
> can't
> say as I'm surprised because that often seems to be the case at the  
> UI:
> things that are supposed to save money wind up costing more,  
> especially when
> it comes to contracts with the private sector.  In the past, I found  
> it very
> easy to deal with the UI with respect to public records requests,  
> but that's
> unfortunately not been the case since Kent Nelson was hired as General
> Counsel.  Other than finding creative ways to thwart public records
> requests, I'm not exactly sure what it is he does since the UI  
> contracts out
> so much of its legal work, but making access to public records  
> difficult if
> not impossible certainly has the bonus of making sure we-the-taxpayers
> remain ignorant about whether all these cost-savings measures are  
> actually
> saving money or losing it.
>
> So much for the UI's pledge for transparency & accountability  
> following the
> deplorable history of serious financial mismanagement.  Seriously,  
> though,
> Pollyanna me thought that "pledge" was going to last longer than a  
> New York
> minute.
>
>
>
> Saundra Lund
> Moscow, ID
>
> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people  
> to do
> nothing.
> ~ Edmund Burke
>
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