Come on, seriously?
Manager Kisela,
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Given the short time you have left as CM, I find it absurd that you are hiring or placing anyone in any position! Professional upper management positions should only be filled after posting those jobs for at minimum a month and then choosing vetted and qualified candidates from a pool of applicants. Have any of these critical job openings been advertised? If they have, it’s news to me. What gives man? Your’ track record of filling these CRITICAL positions with retreads that could not cut it elsewhere, and consequently failed here says it all! You have no vested interest in the City of Port orange as evidenced by your abysmal performance, and immanent departure. Using almost any metric, every single facet of the City has gotten worse under your management. Unless of course, you measure it with yours and Mayor Green’s special brand of “Fuzzy Logic”. Please Greg, do at least one decent thing on your way out and remove yourself from the hiring process altogether. The Citizens of Port Orange will be stuck with the fallout of yet another round of unqualified bozos, while you blow out of town on your way to Destin.
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Council, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, step in here and oversee this before it becomes another mess. Think twice and act once! You can afford to take a month or two and really check applicants out to see if they have documented real world credentials and outstanding track records. I say “Outstanding”, because “Good” just isn’t going to cut it. YOU CAN NOT AFFORD TO RUSH THIS AND ALOW KISELA/GREEN TO PUT ANOTHER LACKLUSTER CRONNIE IN ANY POSITION!!!!!!!
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To the best of my knowledge the new Finance Director is not even a C.P.A. Come on, seriously?
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I guess we are back to “business as usual” on the hiring practices of Mr. Kisela. His last hires who have thankfully left/ or are leaving the city didn’t even have applications on file and as far as anyone can tell had no background checks done prior to being employed because as we all know they were MIT’s who Greg had to hire in order to receive his award from the Range Rider and company.
How in God’s Green Acres can he of all people be allowed to replace the Finance Director given his track record? Also since he’ll be out the door soon I believe Shannon as Acting City Mgr. should be the one to put interim managers in place….not him.
I have nothing against this new woman who is being hired to run this large and troubled department in our very troubled organization, in fact I don’t even know her…that it precisely my point. Who is she? What is her track record? What credentials does she hold that can put our Finance Department back together. Has she filed an application with the city, have her references been checked, have others applied and been interviewed,etc, etc. I could go on and on.
Why this QUICK DECISION??? Is she in ANY WAY connected to Green or Kisela? Where did they find her in such a hurry?
I’d like answers to these things and I hope the Council, Ted Noftal, Mark Schaeffer, Mike Gardner, Hank Springer . Scottt Stiltner and others will address these with the council and mayor.
Exactly WHO was named as Finance Director ? Interim hire only ?