This group of so-called professionals come from failed companies and think they are doing us a favor with their technical savvy and business vision. The reality is that this mayor doesn’t respect department lines and believes she is taking a business approach by carving up the companies (departments) by re-organizing and consolidating.
Her efforts of consolidation may or may not be in the best interest of the customer, the citizen.

This mayor believes that every employee works for her and not the public. She has created a very unproductive environment for the knowlege worker by putting analyst in a bull pen area with no walls and lots of disruptions and noise. The mayor, nor her high paid staff would last or tolerate one day in the cube farm environment.

She has revised policy to give the office of the mayor more power. She has crippled Civil Service so that employees have little to no protection. This has caused employees to wisely seek out Union protection.

Since she is not running for a second term her at-will staff is trying to secure civil service positions. The new group of employees are so stupid that they believe they can stay on staff when a new mayor is elected. Half the new people in IT do not know that her administration goes when she goes. They think it’s business as usual. They don’t get it!

Sam Roop tried to stay on staff and was told to get the hell out. I hope a newly elected mayor shows the same professional courtesy to any of Taylor’s people who think they can stay on staff.

I think a City Manager is exactly what Tulsa needs.