"RELAX, YOU'VE GOT MASTERCARD"
Just when I thought that the Perez Corruption scandal would give me plenty to stay occupied for a while, I received a call about an e-mail that was sent to all employee's in the City of Hartford's IT Department, Metro Hartford Information Services (MHIS). Apparently Eric Jackson, the Chief Information Officer for the City never received the word that the City of Hartford is in a budget crisis, and never saw the stories that we broke about the misuse of City of Hartford credit cards, known as "P" cards or purchasing cards.
Well, recently Jackson hosted two breakfast meetings for his staff, coffee, juice, bagels, muffins, all the trimmings and spared no expense. Relax, no problem, the City is paying for it on its credit card. Only one problem though, the person in purchasing who has now been forced to do their job because of all the scrutiny, rejected Jackson's charge card purchase as apparently not a valid use of the card. I guess there is hope for City Hall, isn't it amazing what a Grand Jury arrest warrant can cause.
So today, Jackson sent an e-mail to all of his staffers through his "Principal Administrative Analyst" Dawn Meucci requesting that they all kick in $10.00 to cover the cost of his mistake.
You can't make this stuff up, is any one capable of showing leadership and managing this city? Mr. Jackson has not returned my call for comment. Maybe Mayor Perez could collect from his staff to pay for those two airline tickets to Ireland.
Here is the e-mail:
Mhis Breakfast
4 comments:
You must be running out of things to talk about. This seems kind of petty.
It may be petty but not when you look at how much the boe and city hall spend on food at meetings; literally thousands.
Like the state you may also want to look into city/boe double dippers.
Someone should look at the personnel who work in that department...especially how Miriam Rodriquez was hired during a hiring freeze and see what SHE does.
Yeah, this is pretty petty... breakfast? He made a mistake, geeez, no one's perfect atleast he tried to correct it by asking for help and covering the rest himself. But the higher ups in the city shouldn't be doing things like this since they have so many other things to deal with- an assistant should have been putting together this not a major of ceo or cfo or cio or coo... etc.
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