The Company You Keep: Human Resources Consultant Hired by City Has Links With Tainted Sac Library Official
The “no holds barred’ human resources consultant hired by the Elk Grove City Council has ties to the scandal-tainted ex-director of the S...
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The “no holds barred’ human resources consultant hired by the Elk Grove City Council has ties to the scandal-tainted ex-director of the Sacramento Public Library system.
The consultant hired by the city to conduct a survey and interviews of city employees, Mary Egan, is a principal with the firm Municipal Resources Group (MRG). Another one of the eight principal’s at MRG, Ann Marie Gold, resigned last fall as the director of Sacramento Public Library under a cloud of suspicion.
Gold was specifically named in a report released by the Sacramento County Grand Jury investigating management of the system. Under Gold’s watch library employees were found to have been engaged in among other things a kickback scheme, ill-advised credit card use and overuse of consultants. Gold’s was cited for her lack of oversight.
The report also advised the board of directors to terminate Gold’s employment. Elk Grove’s representative is council member Sophia Scherman.
Before the board could dismiss Gold, she tendered her resignation following a lengthy performance evaluation. Subsequently, it was revealed by the Sacramento Bee that Gold received a $25,000 resignation pay-off from the library’s board of directors.
Separately, another principal at MRG, Tom Sinclair, was the author of the so-called Sinclair report recently commissioned by the Elk grove City Council. The lengthy report made several recommendations on management practices within the city.
While the association with Gold does not in any way mean that Egan, and for that matter Sinclair are prone to the improprieties that Gold has been alleged to commit, we must question the integrity of any firm that would hire a person of Gold’s caliber.
Furthermore, just how impartial can Egan be toward addressing employees concerns about Elk Grove city manager Laura Gill and Susan Cochran when they already have an established business relationship with the city? Will they really bite the hand that feeds them?
At a minimum, MRG appears to have an inherent conflict of interest. As for the city council, the question must be asked: Is the hiring of MRG genuine or are you just trying to gloss over the problems and hope they will go away?
Research contribution by Linda Ford
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It can only be said that when the one being investigated gets to choose and hire her investigator litle more needs to be said. The EGCC must think us quite the fools. What an arrogant bunch of SOB's!
Yes, like with Pablo Escobar building his own luxury private "prison" in Colombia. The crooks are now running the show.
Can citizens have town hall meeting to hear what is happening?
What happened to the "transparency" in government? Why not hire a firm with NO ties to EG? Any firm who has Ms. Gold on their board must be questioned about their ethics and common sense. Ms. Gold should have faced criminal proseuction for her role in the library scandal. But, instead, she is giving a 25,000 bonus to retire quietly? Why is Elk Grove so afraid to tackle the truth straight on? Face your demons; clean house; move on; learn from your mistakes. What is this current board thinking?
Mary Egan is Gil Albiani's daughter.
who is gill albiani?
GIL ALBIANI
President of the Board of Directors (elected 2004)
Gil Albiani, a long-time resident of the Elk Grove area and a respected member of the local real estate community, was first elected to the CSD Board in 2004 and was relected in 2008. He has been active in local, regional and statewide affairs. He currently serves on California Exposition & State Fair Board, having been appointed by the governor in 2007, as well as on the boards of directors of the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce, Methodist Hospital, Mercy Foundation and American Lung Association. He has served on several regional boards including the California Association of Realtors and the Florin Resource Conservation District. Previously he has served as president of the Sacramento Association of Realtors and was selected as its 1999 Realtor of the Year.
Talk about an inside job.
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