Leadership Crisis

The problem with the city these days is that there is a severe lack of leadership at the top. The citizens of Lodi don't have a leader in Blair King, they have a dictator. I don't think that's what the city council intended at the time. Regardless of what the paper may print in order to protect him, King has alienated every employee and most of the townspeople who have tried to contact him or work with him. He has no interest in working with people. He only wants to dictate. He says he's not going to merge Hutchins Street Square with Parks and Rec, but he's done it anyway by eliminating one of the two director positions. It's a bold faced lie. What's interesting is that the city council sits there and lets him fib to them. How people can stand to work at the city is beyond belief! We in the community demand that the city council bring honesty and integrity back to the city by getting new leadership at the top!!!

Solidarity

If we don't stick together, we will fall!

Editorial

This is not all about money. This is about ethics, respect and dignity, which has been a scarce commodity around top levels of city hall for the past three years. Blair King is an outsider just passing through Lodi. He has no roots here, he has no stake in the long term future of our city, he has no love of Lodi like we do. He thinks he can say and do anything to any one because he's not going to retire here.

The rank and file city employees have no faith in him, rank and file citizens are standing up and objecting to him and his actions, and some city councilmen have said they are sorry he was hired. The council needs to do the right thing right now before more damage is done, or the people of Lodi will have to do it in November.

We citizens deserve better!

When?

With the city selling a chunk of its land for cash and the street sweeping crew being sold to the garbage company for cash its clear that Blair King is just selling off pieces of our town to build a bank account. WHEN ARE PEOPLE GOING TO OBJECT? WHEN ARE PEOPLE GOING TO DO SOMETHING? What will Lodi look like when Blair King finally leaves?

Time is Now

If lodi employees don't rise up to save their jobs, they will be gone. Why doesn't Blair King tell everyone what his plan is? People should ask.

Frog in the kettle

If you think they will stop at contracting out the poor street sweepers, you're wrong. Let's not be like a frog in a kettle where the temp rises so slowly that before you know it its cooked. We need to act now before the city manager sends your job out the door.
Where are the tax payers? Sending the street sweeping jobs to the garbage company is only shifting their costs to the public. Waste Management gets their money from garbage rates, which the city council sets. Those rates will now have to cover the cost of street sweepers. The tax payers will get to pay for this service again through rising garbage rates. What a scam!

Technical problems?

Thanks to mysterious technical problems, the blog got zapped. But that doesn't change anything. The situation at the city of lodi is still the same. Changes need to be made and we intend to voice our frustrations with the current administration. City employees should contact city council people to tell them how they feel. Now's the time.