{"id":18413,"date":"2016-12-07T02:48:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T02:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18413"},"modified":"2016-12-07T02:48:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T02:48:27","slug":"city-needs-to-rid-itself-of-dysfunctional-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18413","title":{"rendered":"City needs to rid itself of ‘dysfunctional’ perception"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s been said that perception often becomes reality.<\/p>\n

That’s occasionally a harsh truth no matter how unrealistic the perception might be in the minds of many.<\/p>\n

Amarillo’s former interim city manager, Terry Childers, went out with a bang. No, make it a boom!<\/em> He muttered a seriously profane epithet in mid-November at a constituent into a hot mic and then quit the next day. He cleared out his office and drove back to Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n

But he had scolded the City Council about what he called the “dysfunction” within City Hall’s government apparatus and he laid the blame for that perception at the council’s feet.<\/p>\n

Was he wrong? Was he way off the mark? Was the interim manager looking for scapegoats?<\/p>\n

Who knows? Who should care? The perception is likely out there in the community that comprises career government administrators.<\/p>\n

It’s a perception that the City Council must address directly, head on and candidly as it continues its search for a permanent city manager.<\/p>\n

Whether it’s true or it’s all a figment of the former interim city manager’s mind doesn’t matter. Some potential administrative candidate might look at what Childers said and determine, “You know, I don’t want any part of that.” How many other top-drawer administrators might draw that conclusion based on the perception that’s been tossed out there by the guy who left City Hall in a huff?<\/p>\n

Indeed, the council might want to examine precisely why the interim manager couldn’t restrain himself that fateful day when he said what he did to one of his bosses, a constituent whose property taxes helps foot the Amarillo government bill.<\/p>\n

Therein might lie the perception that the council needs to cleanse from its public image.<\/p>\n\n

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It’s been said that perception often becomes reality. That’s occasionally a harsh truth no matter how unrealistic the perception might be in the minds of many. Amarillo’s former interim city manager, Terry Childers, went out with a bang. No, make it a boom! He muttered a seriously profane epithet in mid-November at a constituent into … Continue reading City needs to rid itself of ‘dysfunctional’ perception<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[288,290,5621],"class_list":["post-18413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-city-council","tag-amarillo-city-hall","tag-terry-childers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18416,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413\/revisions\/18416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}