Is it time to ditch the office of mayor and replace it with a professional administrator?  A Sun Chronicle file photo of the Attleboro City Hall.

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A former Attleboro council president proposes switching from mayor-run to management by a professional administrator.

This proposal surely has to have appeal for Quincy residents over just this past month’s worth of multiple scandals which have hammered the Koch Maladministration.

After all, not only is it hard to imagine how a professional municipal manager could do worse, the way Quincy might so change its charter the City Council could be duly empowered to fire a city manager for cause.

Burn rate …
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Plus, the reality is that such professional management tends to be more financially responsible, including more cost-effectively providing local services if for no other reasons than that mayoral family members and friends as well as connected local peeps will no longer be able to their idiot sons-in-law set up to dine at the public trough.

Cause in point, admitted problems caused by the presence of Harvard University notwithstanding, the comparable in population to Quincy City of Cambridge has an upwards of roughly ten times larger Stabilitzaion Fund balance than does the City of Quincy, as much as a fifty times greater “Free Cash” balance, and a top of the rating “AAA” credit rate per an FY2020 City of Cambridge budget report.

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way – your call ,,,”
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Quincy, on the other hand, had its bond rating cut by Standard & Poor last spring, but which is something the Koch Maladministration has yet to publicly acknowledge as well as that now all but assuredly the Koch Maladministration is facing scrutiny by at least the Security and Exchange Commission, if not others, over the city’s problematic half a billion-dollar pension bond offering last December.

In short, yet again only in the Q …

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