<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">? Inside hires don't really save money. The person moving up gets the salary of the new position, and then their department has to hire a replacement.<br><div> </div>Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA<div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Saundra Lund <v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm>; vision2020@moscow.com; lfalen <lfalen@turbonet.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, April 1, 2011 12:09:47 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
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<div>If there is a way to waste more money, UI will find it even if they have to hire an administrator to contract a firm to outsource a private company to select a board to appoint an exploratory committee to discover it. </div>
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<div>Donovan Arnold<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 4/1/11, lfalen <i><lfalen@turbonet.com></i></b> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid;PADDING-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;"><br>From: <span>lfalen</span> <lfalen@turbonet.com><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Oh, My EYES :-( Plumber's Butt, the UI, and AlliedBarton<br>To: "Saundra Lund" <v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm>, vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 11:24 AM<br><br>
<div class="plainMail">The UI is real good at wasting money. They used hired a new Dean of the Graduate School from outside. the interim Dean was just fine.<br>Roger<br>-----Original message-----<br>From: "Saundra Lund" <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a><br>Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:50:52 -0700<br>To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: [Vision2020] Oh, My EYES :-( Plumber's Butt, the UI,and AlliedBarton<br><br>> Perhaps someone at the UI should PLEASE let whoever is hiring those fine<br>> hard-working AlliedBarton security professionals (!) know that Moscow<br>> actually has an ordinance prohibiting plumber's butt. Ordinance 2002-13.<br>> <br>> In all fairness, I didn't actually see the dude's
"cleft of the buttocks" on<br>> the weekend, for which I'll be eternally grateful. But, it was horrifyingly<br>> close & *very* unprofessional. And it ***definitely*** wasn't a positive<br>> reflection on the UI.<br>> <br>> OTOH, I've seen MPD officers on campus many times over the years, and they<br>> always looked professional & behaved professionally as well, which<br>> apparently isn't always the case with the AB employees.<br>> <br>> I've heard through the grapevine that the brilliant <sarcasm> decision to<br>> hire AB to save money is actually costing more than anticipated. I can't<br>> say as I'm surprised because that often seems to be the case at the UI:<br>> things that are supposed to save money wind up costing more, especially when<br>> it comes to contracts with the private sector. In the past, I found it very<br>> easy to deal with the UI with respect to public
records requests, but that's<br>> unfortunately not been the case since Kent Nelson was hired as General<br>> Counsel. Other than finding creative ways to thwart public records<br>> requests, I'm not exactly sure what it is he does since the UI contracts out<br>> so much of its legal work, but making access to public records difficult if<br>> not impossible certainly has the bonus of making sure we-the-taxpayers<br>> remain ignorant about whether all these cost-savings measures are actually<br>> saving money or losing it.<br>> <br>> So much for the UI's pledge for transparency & accountability following the<br>> deplorable history of serious financial mismanagement. Seriously, though,<br>> Pollyanna me thought that "pledge" was going to last longer than a New York<br>> minute.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Saundra Lund<br>> Moscow, ID<br>> <br>> The only thing necessary for the triumph of
evil is for good people to do<br>> nothing.<br>> ~ Edmund Burke<br>> <br>> ***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2011 through life plus<br>> 70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside<br>> the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the<br>> author.*****<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> =======================================================<br>> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br><span>> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fsr.net/">http://www.fsr.net/</a> </span><br>> mailto:<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
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