Our reading assignment has us reading a treatise on the importance of trust and being trustworthy in all things.
Our township manager wants guidance…release a check to the company contracted to clear deadwood and debris from Owls Nest Park then start an 18 month maintenance agreement for another amount. Do we take the job as complete when they have left piles of debris and blocked paths and left stumps that some visitors seem to be using to watch mature?
Supervisors weigh in. They really have not fulfilled their contract. That’s what the company does grind up stumps and remove debris not bank it elsewhere in the park where it damages other healthy trees or perhaps healthy visiting people!
We don’t need a new contract to maintain this travesty of fulfillment. Did the company think this small township with a federal grant was easy pickings? That no one would look? Three of 5 supervisors have visited to walk to jog perhaps. They see the park as their yards. It is collectively ours. We deserve accountability whether or not we are spending local tax dollars or tax dollars coming back to our township from federal sources.
We know now not to trust companies with contracts. Anyone will try to pull a fast one to get a government check. Which is really a personal check from me and my neighbors.
Meeting the workings of supervisors for the first time I can trust that some are looking at more than just the bottom line and will demand accountability as they expect it of themselves.