10-19-2018, 06:07 AM
Don't know why everyone is so intent on beating up on DHHL. No, they don't fulfill their mission - but, like most State/County agencies, their leadership is faced with a difficult mission that requires cooperation and support from other (e.g regulatory, accounting, etc.) agencies that are indifferent, if not obstructive, to their mission, while being burdened with inadequate funding, a (mostly) indifferent workforce that they can't discipline or discharge, and a legislature that is more interested in grandstanding and diverting blame for their failures than they are in actually supporting the agencies.
It is a constant source of surprise to me that halfway decent people can be found to manage these agencies - they have to know, going into these positions, that they are going to spend their entire tenure in the job taking abuse from above and below while being able to accomplish 10% of what could be accomplished if we actually had a functioning government...
It is a constant source of surprise to me that halfway decent people can be found to manage these agencies - they have to know, going into these positions, that they are going to spend their entire tenure in the job taking abuse from above and below while being able to accomplish 10% of what could be accomplished if we actually had a functioning government...