Here’s another article for you to read from the Ann Arbor News it’s about our City Manager Ed Koryzno.
I’m probably going to need a little help on this subject so chime in if you can correct me.
I was going to rewrite this with current information but decided to leave what I wrote and comment back. What you see in bold are corrections.
The City Manager of Ypsilanti is reponsible for the running of the city, he takes direction and gives direction to the City Council. The city uses a 5 point rating system (or so it seems) with 3 being meets job requirements and 4 being exceeds requirements (so what is 5?). It is a 5 point system with 5 being far exceeds job requirements. Ed Koryzno makes recommendations to city council, but city council can accept or reject them. City council has the ultimate responsibility for policy decisions like Water Street.
The Council seems to have broken down along ‘old lines’ and ‘new lines.’ Robb and Richardson giving lower scores Filipiak, Nickels, Gawlas and Schreiber giving high scores.
Mayor Paul Schreiber and council members Brian Filipiak, Bill Nickels and John Gawlas gave Koryzno his highest scores, ranging between 4 and 5. They praised Koryzno’s knowledge, leadership and ability to communicate with the council and make spending cuts over the years without dramatic reduction to core services.
If Koryzno is so great what is the problem? If you can give him a 5 we must give the mayor and council a -1 to average the cities below average performance since 1996. There are two glaring examples of bad decisions being made while Koryzno has been in office. The first of course is Water Street and the second is that city employees don’t stick around and they have been leaving the city in droves lately. According to Steve Pierce …..Bohlen is the 13th Department manager to leave the city of Ypsilanti in the last three and half years and the second to quit in the last two weeks ,” and this quote was before the recent departure of the city planner. It is true that the city has gone through a lot of department managers but both Councilman Robb and Mayor Schreiber commented that nobody left out of ill will — they just moved on.
Is there an exit interview of these employees conducted by the Mayor and/or City Council? If there isn’t an exit interview we should start one, perhaps Ed doesn’t communicate as well as you think. Once again correction noted that Mr. Koryzno does communicate very well.
Come on Mayor and Council you and the city manager are two separate units of government. You are the the checks and balances we have in the city government and by not giving a fair review you aren’t helping anyone.
Are the reviews open for pubic viewing? I would love to see them. Reviews aren’t open for public viewing you have to to apply under the FOIA.
