Annapolis Capital Punishment

CP has repeatedly and consistently maintained that nobody yet everybody is in charge of managing parking in this city. Responsibilities are thinly spread between the police, transportation, finance and other departments, and now we find Public Works as well. Oh could I tell you stories. CP used to sit just a few feet away from the computer that stored all the daily parking fine and revenue data. On most days, finance department employees based in the transportation department handled the daily backup. On days that person was absent, I did the backups. Despite my requests to the Transportation Director, no system was ever put in place to see the tapes got backed up and on days both Finance employees and I were absent, I would return to work to find there had been no backups (They may have been backed up elsewhere--for example the server at the contractor who handled collections...???)

It gets worse and has led to a lawsuit. See today's local paper for a story that will make you wonder even more....see:
curb your enthusiasm. In this story, the newspaper reports that "Steve Kling, acting city attorney, and Mr. McAlister, who oversees such parking restrictions for the city, did not return calls for comment."

Ohh. Curb my surprise. Kling was probably busy not reviewing the boat show lease at the time.

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