Mayors review of community volunteering - Non-Profit and Public Committees

Dear Garth,

Thank you for your phone call.  I hope you don’t get in trouble with your bosses (Remember, Editor Mark Vasche left instructions that the Sabatino administration was to be ignored).  Your Sunday article isn’t the front story or the back story, it has little connection to reality.    Below is some information for you on the real story.  

1. Fact: City Managers are the responsibility of the City Council. 
   1. Knowing that to a large extent – those positions are only ELECTED after being SELECTED by the “people of power and means.”  
   2. Then it becomes clear that the City Managers actually serve at the bequest and  pleasure of the “people of power and means”
   3. Track down the goals of these people of power and means, HINT: (they line their pockets with all your money) – and you will get an understanding into the erratic and abrupt hiring and firing of City Managers.  
   4. The key to a Modesto City Managers success is:
      1. Toe the line, line the pockets. 
      2. DO NOT actually manage or heaven forbid… make any real decisions based on ethics or the needs of the community. 
      3. Carry out the agenda that you are given, don’t worry about the agenda that is printed.  
2. Since you asked, my take as a former Mayor: