Comments on: To the EDH community

By: Just Thinkin

Just Thinkin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:23:27 +0000

Ms. Mattock, Your actions will not be forgotten. Your lack of integrity is appalling. You apologized to the community and Mr. Skeel’s family for “the time and clumsy nature in which it took us to make our decision.” You probably are very sorry the issue became public and took so long to remove Mr. Skeel. You have ulterior motives in offering an apology. (Threat of a recall may have initiated your urge to apologize.)

You did not apologize for your actions. You did not personally take ownership or responsibility for anything. You only apologized for circumstance that included you as a board member (us, all involved, we). Congratulations, you are a politician.

Of course “it breaks your heart” for being a part of this. This will taint your political career.

By: Concerned Resident

Concerned Resident — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:32:34 +0000

Please attend the EDH CSD Board of DIrectors Meeting on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 6:00 PM in the Parks Conference Room. The topic of discussion is the appointment of the Interim General Manager.

Let your voice be heard!

By: Nick Yonano

Nick Yonano — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:59:19 +0000

Are you kidding us? You’ve just taken a large part in the most inept, almost-criminal process of managing a special district that many of us have ever seen, and you think a letter asking us to hold hands and spend more money on an outside consultant, will solve this? What, no call for open therapy for all who were affected?

Please Ms. Mattock, and the other 3 directors, and Ms. Lowry, do us a favor, and find another geographical area to plunder.

By: sarcastic

sarcastic — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:37:13 +0000

Ha! Did you clear any of your suggestions with the HR manager first?

By: Concerned EDH Citizen

Concerned EDH Citizen — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:04:49 +0000

We, the public, deserve to hear ALL of what went into the decision to fire Mr. Skeel. I hope for our community’s sake it’s more than the inability of a half-dozen adults to play well together and that was some egregious failure of duty on Mr. Skeel’s part. A letter to the editor doesn’t cut it.

Having attended the public “hearing,” it wasn’t obvious Mr. Skeel deserved to be put on leave, much less fired. The lack of unanimity in the board’s decision to fire him is a big red flag.

New general counsel is a must – most importantly because your current counsel is soon to become party to a wrongful termination suit and will be unable to defend the CSD in the same suit.

A consultant? Who’s paying for that? The job isn’t that complicated. If you don’t have proper practices in place by now, you ALL should be fired, not just Mr. Skeel.

Public interviews would be ridiculous. What, are we going to elect the GM? Do your job! We’ve had enough of the circus. If the board members can’t do the job you were elected to do, please don’t run for re-election, better yet, resign now so we can move forward with competence.

I didn’t have a horse in this race, but as a tax-payer and resident of the district, I have been completely underwhelmed by both the process and the players.