Glenn Cutler to Retire
Public Works and Utilities Director Glenn Cutler is planning to retire sometime this summer. He began his career with the City in June of 1999.
posted by Tom Harper at 9:54 AM
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
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24 Comments:
Good Ridance.
I'm not holding my breath, but maybe, just maybe, this town will be able to move forward.
We are going to be paying for his huge capital projects for decades to come unless the City Council can stand up to the City staff, which seems unlikely.
I'd rather see someone with a strong civil engineering background stand before, not up to, the city council when presenting public works options. I am old school in thinking that facts and experience should trump personal opinions.
http://youtu.be/9uYWwKYxB4Q
thank GOD
Cutler and the City Council have already obligated the residents to huge debts. He'll just ride off with his big retirement, and smile as he goes.
The man has been poisonous and a cancer on city government for too long. He should have been fired long ago. We will likely not see the last of him after he is off the city payroll, etiher. He'll continue to suck up exorbitant undeserved public funds in a role as outside consultant with a firm like Exeltech or CH2MH or Brown & Caldwell.
Old school facts and experience got us to where we are today. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
For example: landfill cells near eroding bluffs, so they build a partial seawall which increases erosion wherever there isn't a seawall. Now we've been told the best solution is to build more seawall and truck some of the garbage farther back from the bluff. This is just pushing the problem into the future where it will cost even more to deal with. What if they had fixed it right when it first was a problem? What if they realized that a landfill wasn't even a good idea in the first place? Now that our garbage is being trucked away we don't even consider where it goes and what happens to it. Out of sight and out of mind.
This thinking dominates every major public works project. The CSO project isn't fixing the problem, it's fixing the symptom and the sewers and storm drains will still be connected when it's finished. I'm mad as hell paying for this "fix" but I'd be happy to pay MORE to fix it the right way.
The options come from the city staff and the council has not been brave enough to say no, this isn't good enough, come up with something better.
They come and they go and we get stuck with the bills.
We should name the storm drain on the new Lauridsen bridge, that "step-child" of a drain, after him, the Glenn Cutler Memorial Storm Drain.
Then we can walk over the Max Mania Memorial Bike Path/Sidewalk and look down on it.
"I'm not holding my breath, but maybe, just maybe, this town will be able to move forward."
No.
He retired because he knew Mayor Max would fire him!
At Anon 6:47PM
Well said! Absolutely true.
Hey! Now wait a minute!
So, despite being told that the seawall at the landfill was a bad idea, and that the garbage should just be removed, Cutler bullied his seawall project through.
Now, the citizens are facing this: "Herrera has estimated that removing the entire seawall would cost between $30 million and $44 million."
The flipping project lasted less than 7 years, and now we're looking at THE MOST EXPENSIVE project in the city's history (this will be second only to the current $41 million CSO project) to re-do what Cutler got us into?
To do what the city was told should have been done, in the first place?
WTF???
With Cutler's retirement the cherished dream of our eco village becomes reality. Soon, The Leader's divine mission, his sacred trust, to establish the eco village of Tze Whitzen will become manifest!
If you will it, it is no dream!
Cutler gets us into a huge multi-million dollar mess, and then retires when the shit hits the fan.
Anyone think he will be held accountable, in ANY way?
The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, signed by Barack Obama minutes ago, is wonderful and transformational news for the NOP.
Yet the Peninsula Daily Teabag, has a nice hodgepodge of WHITE WING articles and fluff pieces as breaking news.
Lion kills a woman in a lion cage (shocker) in CA, breaking news.
Smokestack coming down, breaking news. Wow, that will be missed more than grandpa!
Athiest in Longview pisses off the teabaggers in Longview so the city change the rules just to make themselves look like victims, despite the notion that Jesus advised we pray in private, alone, in a closet, in the dark, one on one with our God. Breaking news. Take the poll! We all want to know, how that breaks down, public opinion, not scientific of course, about public prayer in govt. meetings, nativity scenes at courthouses, FASCINATING. And timely.
People should go to every city council meeting from now until Cutler leaves the city payroll and demand that after he retires he never, ever be hired as a consultant or in any other direct or indirect fashion (such as an employee of a consulting firm) ever again. People should also demand that the City immediately adopt a policy that prospective consultants or contractors who hire retired or former city officials will be disqualified from consideration for city public works projects for a period of five years.
Cutler deserves not one penny more in taxpayer money after he leaves city service. He will already be raking-in obscenely large public pension payments from his first and second careers. His despicable legacy is evidence enough that he deserves absolutely nothing more.
The really sad part of the Cutler disaster is that there was SO much evidence that he was screwing Port Angeles, all along, but it was just ignored by the City Council. Or, more to the point, they allowed it to continue. And, this applies to the current Council.
Will the City learn from this disaster? Now that the City and it's residents have been saddled with huge debt by Cutler and the complict City Council, what can be done?
"Tharinger backs bill to allow counties to raise sales tax without public vote"
Great, just great....
Hah! You think that Cutler has set you up NOW? Wait until you see the bills coming to address what he has set up, in the near future. Any wonder he is "retiring" now. Many millions yet to be spent before all is said and done.
Port Angeles: Strong and Free.
Does Cutler live within the city of PA? I'd wager not, given what he knows about the high utility rates and taxes that his projects have imposed on residents.
With his income what in the hell difference would it make where he lives?
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