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Ready to govern?
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Posted on Oct 06 2005
An example of Heinz Hofschneider’s ready to govern? The following illustrates the management style of the former speaker. This style has been repeated often, from the promise to produce evidence in his campaign against the college, to the promise to expose the garment industry in 2003. None of those promises were kept. Those that have worked with him will recognize these traits.
Speaker Hofschneider was the chair of the prison task force. His mission was to develop a plan for a new prison and then secure the funding to have it built. After a review of the project, Heinz alienated all of the other task force members and made himself basically responsible for the development and design of the project. He decided on a large $20 million facility which would house up to 400 prisoners. Only problem was that he only provided $15 million in funding and made no allowance and never budgeted for the fact that a prison so large would cost over $1 million in operations costs alone. This is not even considering the fact that we only have 130 prisoners here so the facility has been built to 4 times the needed size.
The result?
– An overbuilt facility using only 25 percent of its capacity;
– Operations cost exceeding $1 million, which was never budgeted by the Legislature;
– Cost overruns of $5 million; and
– Alienation of the task force members.
Ready to govern? The real Heinz Hofschneider.
Sid Kani
Tanapag
