Published: May 09, 2008 07:56 pm            

LETTERS: Questions about the new city administrator

Questions about the new city administrator

First let me say that I’ve been saying for years that if you want good people in City Hall, you have to pay them a good salary, but there is something very wrong with what’s going on now. If it’s not illegal, it sure looks unethical.

We have a group of people the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo/“Building a Better Niagara Falls Fund” pay for a nationwide search for a new city administrator and now that she is hired, they are going to contribute $35,000 a year towards her salary. How much did this fund have to do with who got the job? Who were the other candidates for the job? Who are these people? Why are they willing to pay $140,000 over the next four years to the salary of the city administrator? Are they just good citizens of Buffalo who out of the goodness of their hearts want to help out Niagara Falls? Are they people that do business with the city or want to do business here? The mayor seems to know but won’t tell. What’s next? The trial lawyers get a fund started to pay for a raise for the Corporation Council so they will have a friend in City Hall when they sue the city? I can’t believe the City Council went along with this. Are they that naive, or do they know who these people are and want to get in on whatever is going on? Oh well, what came we expect it’s just the same old Niagara Falls — nothing ever changes.

Jim Gray

Niagara Falls



Words of support

I have known Bonnie Argona-Gifford for many years and know he to be a woman of commitment and dedication to whatever she tackles. Therefore, I am voting for Bonnie Gifford for the Lewiston-Porter School Board on May 20. She did an excellent job for the short term she was on the board, and I feel we should give her the opportunity to continue the fight against higher taxes in our district.

Mary Ecker

Youngstown

        

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