High Performance Government Network verses FW City OF
Posted by John B. Kalb - 2/25/09 @ 11:40 pm - Filed Under Uncategorized
Just for fun dial the City of Fort Wayne phone number 427-1185. You will be suprised (or maybe, shocked) to find that an employee of HPGN for well over a year is still claiming to be an employee of the city. Question: JUST WHAT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN HPGN AND THE CITY ADMINISTRATION??? Are Fort Wayne taxpayers still seeing that it’s old employees are provided with leads on potential customers at the expense of our tax dollars (in addition to the $95,000 per year we are paying them? And, by the way, wasn’t HPGN to issue a report to our City Council on all the Millions of dollars that they “saved” Fort Wayne in 2008? I guess they are too busy answering messages left on the city-owned answering machine to do a report that was promised.
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John, as if that’s not enough to get your dander up, HPGN has an office at the Public Safety Academy. They’re reportedly paying about $600 a month for the office space, which is probably well below market average for the amount of square footage they’re using in a brand new building with security on-site. I don’t know what utilities might be included, but suspect the deal is pretty sweet.
Talk about “high performance”. Here’s another one for you… Go to any office in the city-county building and try and turn off the lights. Even if the office is empty. Yep… you’re right. No light switches! 24 hour power.
That is patently, absolutely not true.
John, the Commissioners office area has several sets of light switches controlling the front office, conference rooms, and the County IT area. I flip them on each morning before making coffee & they are all turned off when the staff heads home :-) It is true that not all areas of the building are equipped with switches, but there is an effort to have switches installed as broadly as possible.
Someone at City of Fort Wayne pays attention to this blog - They removed Ms. Love-Jacobson’s recorded message within hours of the posting.
Hey, that’s responsive local government! Now, if the same person would just listen to the citizen’s on items like an unnecessary new downtown ball diamond, unwanted downtown casino, release of environmental study on the OmniSource property, and some other “hidden-agenda” items, maybe we will be getting somewhere.