City's General Services director to depart Mr. Perrett, 49, is a 21-year veteran of the department. He said his accomplishments include contracting out the city's vehicle maintenance, negotiating a deal with the Pittsburgh Public Schools to have city workers televise their meetings and 'just maintaining services despite severe cuts over the decade.'The Pgh Cable Department / General Services did do some telivision work with the Pittsburgh Public Schools. However, the broadcasting of the Pgh Public Schools Board Meetings is to end, sadly. The success of the program was short lived.
The effective outcome of the broadcasting of the meetings is questioned too. One can't listen to any meeting on the web. Getting the meetings into MP3 files and stored there, for listening, is a no-brainer that General Services could have and should have done.
The Cable TV offering from the city were stripped of a number of employees and a lot of the wind in their sails departed. They work hard to just keep their heads above water. Other efforts for more cooperation among the other institutions in town could have been championed from the upper administration managers.
The O'Connor camp is not commenting on personnel moves. It is December 23 and we've heard of one person being hired.
Perhaps the higher cost of either parking or fuel has gotten to the transition team efforts. Bob might be waiting until he gets his official parking spot before he ventures out, as he got nailed by the media for nicking extra graces in prior parking news coverage.
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City's General Services director to depart
Friday, December 23, 2005
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh General Services Director Dale Perrett said this week he has been informed he won't be part of Mayor-elect Bob O'Connor's administration.
Mr. Perrett, 49, is a 21-year veteran of the department. He said his accomplishments include contracting out the city's vehicle maintenance, negotiating a deal with the Pittsburgh Public Schools to have city workers televise their meetings and "just maintaining services despite severe cuts over the decade."
He met his wife, Patti, in the department.
General Services is budgeted to have 67 employees, down from 257 a decade ago. There has been talk that Mr. O'Connor will fold it into the Public Works Department.
"He made his department so efficient that they could easily merge it into another department," said Councilman William Peduto. "The complete restructuring would not have been possible without [Mr. Perrett]."
The O'Connor camp is not commenting on personnel moves.
Planning Director Susan Golomb, Solicitor Jacqueline Morrow and Personnel Director Barbara Parees are not staying on. Other department heads and chiefs said they have not been told their fates or could not be reached for comment.
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