Here’s an interesting Facebook post, a video, about what’s happened over in Greeley, Colorado as they clean up after their ex-city manager, Raymond Lee, who is now Portland’s top-paid city official. According to critics, Lee blew through a lot of scarce taxpayer money in Greeley assembling and maintaining a personal entourage, feasting on countless “business” meals, and extensive travel. They’re cutting more than $700,000 a year of unnecessary spending from the city manager’s budget.
Nobody in Greeley City Hall is talking about why Lee left his position there – his employment was officially ended before he was named a finalist for the Portland city manager gig – but his spendthrift ways, now becoming clearer, may have had a lot to do with it.
You have to wonder if Lee’s playing the same game here in Portland now. I believe Mayor Keith Wilson’s budget gave him four new administrative positions to dole out to his pals. Is anybody on the City Council, or in the Portland media, paying attention?