Bob Benfield

[MattD]

There is a rezoning coming up that requires a sign to be posted on the property to advertise the public hearing.

I emailed Bob Benfield on Sunday night and stated I thought 1) the first sign was "tucked" away and 2) a sign should be posted not just on Wrenn Drive but also on Kildaire Farm Road.

I recieved an email from Bob Monday morning that he was going to take a look at the sign "tucked" away and also post a sign on Kildaire Farm Rd. When I drove home Monday night, there was the sign.

Good job, Bob!

[Rono]

Matt.

I concur that Bob Benfield is a good public servant. I believe he does his job even though he often times does not personally feel that the way he HAS TO DO IT is right, proper or fair.

I get the impression that if he felt he was free to say so, he would make a statement something like this. “If I complained, spoke out, or tried to change what I think is wrong, I would be out of a job”

I believe there are many others around Cary Town Hall that feel the same way I believe Bob does. In my many one on one conversations that I have had with various staff, I have all but been told as much.

Unfortunately, in a right to work state Matt, this is where having no “professional organization” (yes for those of you who are wondering, professional organization does in some circles mean a UNION) to stand behind an employee who may speak out for what he or she believes is right, is truly detrimental to the taxpayers.

Merit pay for individual efforts is one thing, (I don’t believe in equal pay for everyone in a Union) but discharge without cause (the two way street of “at will” employment) for speaking out about what one believes is wrong, is also a part of the cause and effect of right to work laws.

The result is people doing jobs that they, truly in there heart, believe are morally, and ethically, wrong, but they must continue to do them because they alone are powerless to stop the wrongs. They know if they try, they jeopardize there own employment.

Some free government huh! In the end, this is where our employee, the government worker, gets stifled when he or she could be helping the people he or she serves, by exposing the flaws and helping to correct the wrongs they know exist. But instead we, the taxpayers, in many cases, just continue to get screwed. Sad

Rono