The Pork Report

Good help is hard to find at Broad and Market an Inky article by Patrick Kerkstra reports.  Mayor Michael Nutter has had a difficult time filling some key department head positions as he quickly approaches 125 days in office.  Anyone who has had minimal dealing with City Hall will tell you, there is a major reorganization underway, and Nutter seems intent on filling the new administration with highest caliber workers available.

The ’07 mayor’s race blog The Next Mayor has probably done the best job of chronicling the appointments of Nutter administration, though it still remains unclear if there will be another major top-down overhaul of the organizational chart.  Just last Friday, Police Commissioner Ramsey announced a major reorganization of the City’s Police Department, which in recent years has unfortunately remained as the City’s most visible department.

Regardless of how much City Hall needs to be torn down and built back up, The Pork Report has begun to hear the grumblings around the lack of continuity amid the transition.  The biggest complaint from city bureaucrats, however, has been the sloppy recordkeeping of the Street Administration, particularly in the second term. As the City FY09 budget quickly approaches, many are questioning if there as much money being thrown away as we saw in Post-Goode era. The real test of the current administration will be the reevaluation of every city contract and state or federal grant administered by the city, and closing the loop on the no-bid contract system. And while Mayor Nutter may be approaching his 125^th day in office, he still has roughly 1,335 days left, to get Philadelphia back on track.