PTC pay hike close to unethical action

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The Citizen headline on Nov. 5, 2014, was, “Pennington fires back at pay raise critics.”

My opinion is the headline should have read, “Pennington fired for misleading City Council and taxpayers.”

Pennington’s points in The Citizen are mumbo jumbo at best to try to temper public awareness that he misled the council and the taxpayer.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to look at what transpired in the way the study was contracted, executed and implemented to know something is wrong. It took me only a few minutes to review recent articles and the information on www.PTCPride.org to understand that the council and taxpayers have been had.

My view is that Pennington put this project together with minimal council oversight, thinking the public and council would not notice. It looks like he got it by a majority of the council, but the taxpayers sure noticed.

It sure seems to border on unethical behavior when the people benefiting from a government action write the bid, select the vendor, and make the recommendations to council.

The result is taxpayers are now on the hook for over six hundred thousand dollars due to a flawed process and study. The bad news is this expense has not been budgeted. The really bad news is that this is not just for this year but for every year in the future.

I think that council relied on Pennington to give good guidance and act professionally, and he failed. Maybe it is time to get someone in that position who is on the taxpayers’ side. Where is the public outrage?

Scott Brown
Peachtree City, Ga.