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The real debacle of Warren Price

Warren Price was highly regarded in his previous jobs.

He brought in an outsider to run the economic development department in Dayton.

He was the “unanimous top pick” of the the Dayton City Commission.

And now he’s gone, and no one on the City Commission has offered a legitimate reason why.

Not only that- they paid him off to leave quietly- with our tax dollars. The paper reports north of $40K- which is almost double the median income of a family of four in Dayton. That’s ludicrous and an insult to the working poor in Dayton.

Putting Shelly Dickstein in charge instead of Terry Slaybaugh was an epic mistake- had Slaybaugh not taken his show to Milwaukee for a short stint after being passed over for the City Manager job- he’d be in it now. With Nan- it’s all about loyalty to her.

The question people have asked me is “What’s the real reason the Price wasn’t right?” Considering I’m on a 3-week motorcycle journey on the West Coast- I’m not in a position to dig around. We’ll see if the Dayton Daily news or the Dayton Business Journal decides to excavate this story.

My guess is that we’re seeing a butting of heads between Nan- who wants to be a strong Mayor leader- and a city manager who wanted to do the job properly- something that’s been sorely missing for the last 20 years. Go back to the Valerie Lemmie/Mike Turner partnership- or Rick Helwig to see how it was supposed to be done.

The only answer I have for Dayton residents is think long and hard before voting for the party boys or the preacher posse come November. I’m going with the men of god. We need someone able to distinguish between a higher power and Nan on the commission in guiding their actions and telling us the truth.

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Bismark

I hope this wakes a few sleeping Daytonites up about the dangers and costs of having The Whale as the top dog. We can’t afford her and her tantrums.

new government

This reminds me of the time when DDN reported the financial director of Moraine quit for no apparent reason in a small box inside the paper discretely hidden but the director was gone just like that with no reason given; just goes to show you how so much happens in executive sessions without explanations to the public as to why?

Ralph

City Manager form of government, isn’t that what the charter says? My ass!

Carl

I think that in this day and age, anyone that is hired to manage a government bureaucracy that is an “outsider” has a target on their back. This in spite of all the professions that “we need a change agent, new ideas, re engineering blah blah blah. Mid and upper level managers in dayton are so tied to politics, an outsider does not know who knows who and is bound to step on the wrong political toe. When push comes to shove, no council member will stand with the city manager when they try and perform their duties.

Hudson Rush

Watch the way the Mayor handles this legit question. She’s an embarrassment! It should be blatantly clear why Warren Price wanted out! Her interview starts around the 1:30 mark.

http://www.whio.com/news/news/local/dayton-city-manager-price-is-out/nnfSy/

Bismark

Hudson Rush: Thanks for posting the Whale most of us really know. Importantly, it represents one of the few on-camera & for-the-record exposures of the TRUE WHALE. Seems this incident has hit a nerve as she was completely defensive and unprepared. This is ammunition for the next mayoral race.