City Hall Spends Your Tax Dollars On . . . Sphincter Control?!
More recently, and also zoo-related, was the decision to hire a feng shui "expert" to advise on construction of the elephant pen.
But today's L.A. includes a story on what I consider a new low. The City of L.A.'s Housing Department -- you know, the people who are supposed to house the homeless?-- is spending YOUR hard-earned tax money on a consultant who is teaching its employees . . . insert drum roll here . . . "sphincter control."
When you think about how Mayor Villaraigosa's administration is squandering your money, you're going to need a lesson in that art, aren't you?
To be fair, the training courses aren't entirely about sphincter control. No, the consultant who has received over $18,000 of your money, so far, inclues training on "playing with wooden sticks."
Your City Council, moreover, UNANIMOUSLY approved renewal of this "consultant's" contract. Thank you, City Council!
You could not make this stuff up. You couldn't. Kafka and Gogol -- the author, not the search engine -- could never come up with anything this absurd.
Here's a link to the story by Jessica Garrison: Zen and the Art of Managment. (The title, by the way, is a play on the name of a book I enjoyed as a teenager, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.")
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Walter Moore, Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles, MooreIsBetter.com
Just when I think City Hall cannot get any more ridiculous, it sinks to a new low.
The first boondoggle that caught my eye was the City's agreement to pay China $1 million to rent -- not to buy, but to rent -- three monkeys for 10 years, and to build a $2.3 million monkey house for their comfort.