What's happening with Nahai and the DWP is a small part of the real costs to city residents in the view of Ron Kaye, expressed in his blog, http://www.ronkayela.com/ today,
"Who's on First, What's on Second -- The City Hall Comedy Show," By Ron Kaye on October 6, 2009. Here's on part of the posting today that might clue you in a little more,
Anyway, the payoff for failure to Nahai is a pittance compared to the millions
of dollars the DWP commission will soon be giving away to its 8,500 workers.
They are about to get a 2 percent cost-of-Living raise although the
cost of living in LA actually fell 1.7 percent in the last year. Throw in the
likelihood of a lump sum payment as well and guarantees of 2 to 4 percent raises
for the next four years and you're talking big money.
Reading the postings that Ron has put onto his blog over time will put things into a sharper focus on who actually should be included in the assortment of culprits making the various problems for the city.
The posting in the blog yesterday, "Bruno, LA's Watchdog: We Won't Get Fooled Again," by Ron Kaye, October 5, 2009, examines a little more of the situation with David Nahai's departure and some related activities of the players, all told in the character of Bruno, Ron's dog. http://ronkayela.com/2009/10/bruno-las-watchdog-we-wont-get.html
Well, there's more to come, as usual for all these things, and water mains are still bursting with an unusual frequency, but no one know why- and that's one of the things that council members did not like to hear from Nahai, which was not really the worst part of his management. Nobody really know why that's happening but you know money was not put into modernizing or maintaining the systems that could have happened if the City's General Fund had not been siphoning off lots of the money collected over the years.
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