Since 2008, Charles Roberts has kept an eagle-eye on the pre-K-8 school construction in Hampton to make sure it ran smoothly and taxpayer money wasn’t wasted.
Throughout the process, he alerted his boss about mismanagement on the $100 million projects that led to the schools opening a year late and costing $2 million in delays.
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Now, Roberts’ job as director of facilities and planning has been eliminated from the proposed 2011 budget that the School Board will finalize March 31.
The article says that the position has been filled almost continuously for 18 years, but that no construction is planned for the next six years so the position is no longer needed.
What will be interesting to watch is whether the position does indeed remain eliminated or whether it comes back in a year or two – with a different director, of course.
With that kind of track recrod, he will be able to get a job!
Posted by Warren | Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 10:03 amThanks for posting this. A favored technique for getting rid of whistleblowers is to package their firing with mass lay-offs. Was he let go unfairly? Who of us can say, since we are not of the decision-making process. However, I bet his being let go becomes a deterrent towards other possible whistleblowers stepping up. Especially in this broken economy.
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Posted by jamesquigley4congress | Saturday, March 27, 2010, 12:17 pm