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I think it is unfortunate the way Westfield City Administration is flagrantly airing the their disagreements in public. Surely this could have been settled without lawsuits. Who pays for attorney fees?
Robert, I will go out on a limb and guess…us.
This whole thing has the whole “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” cloud hanging over it. Just not sure which party has the fire they’re trying to put out. One thing I do know, if an employee in the private sector allowed an IT firm access to company computers after hours, or at all for that matter, they’d probably be facing charges of some sort.
“announced that she’d forgone a list of city-approved vendors to retain her own forensic IT professional to investigate the matter.”
“My IT person”
These aren’t her personal computers.
Read this two days earlier:
https://www.youarecurrent.com/2021/08/10/205824/
This is very bizarre.
Going around her own internal IT department and doing this in secret must mean their is internal distrust and to copy the hard drives of six computers for her own benefit is highly suspicious. I would normally say this is an internal matter as it would be with a corporation, but since were talking about a government run city I can understand why they have publicly disclosed what is going on and yes, they need to get to try and uncover the facts. I can’t imagine it was ok for her to do that no matter her reasons and if your concern is really just removing a program why keep a copy of the hard drives. Something fishy going on here. I hope the truth comes out.
Clerk-Treasurer and Mayor are each separately elected officials with control over their own staff and statutory functions. If “her” staff had remote-control software installed on their computers by “his” staff, she may have a case to examine it and to decide whether to get rid of it.
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I seem to recall similar infighting between Carmel’s mayor and clerk-treasurer some years back, and it resulted in Carmel changing to a different class of city so that the mayor could choose a comptroller to handle city finances. I’d guess that is where this situation in Westfield will end up.
The IT department reports to the mayor. She is an elected official.. Hiring outside help to determine what his area is doing to hers doesn’t sound unreasonable, same as hiring outside legal counsel due to the mayor in charge of it also. There are admitted problems at Grand Park due to the mayor, seems like he’s concerned about something more
Any reasonable person who has followed this saga , which began last year, knows the Mayor has wasted over $750,000 of taxpayers’ funds on legal fees in 2021 alone and the Clerk Treasurer has been harassed with these frivolous lawsuits. There are months of legal expenses which the City has not yet been billed for which will probably push that amount over $1 million!
seems kinda petty
Such a travesty, the city could put the money (which seems likely to top $1 million) and the energy into doing so much good for our community. Instead, our “leaders” continue to glibly waste our valuable resources (their government salaries and benefits, their government offices, their staff, the fees for lawyers and consultants) to perpetuate this childish feud. It’s long past time for them to get in a room, without lawyers and consultants, and do what they are paid to do – bury the personal differences and find a way to work together on behalf of Westfield. I’m pretty sure if they had to use THEIR MONEY to sue each with, this would have been resolved long ago. Most children demonstrate more emotional intelligence than these two egomaniacs.