ASHFORD: Tonight at 6:00 PM Ashford Mayor Carole Barfield and members of the Ashford City Council will meet in their regular scheduled meeting. We have reviewed the agenda and some items which were tabled last meeting are not on this agenda. And they were tabled until the next meeting.
GUESS WHAT? Tonight is the next regular scheduled meeting so the item(s) should be on the agenda. That is “IF” the Mayor is going to do what is right.
The City of Ashford has a growing youth program. The Rec Director is Jeff Speed. While there are around 170 youth involved the Rec Director has been apparently negligent in the performance of some of his duties. Some required duties of the Rec Director, Jeff Speed is not been “speeding” in the performance of his duties. In fact, he has been negligent in the performance of his required duties based on information that I have received. And he has not fulfilled some of his promises made.
The City of Ashford Town Council has attempted to draft policies to build a foundation of safety, fairness and integrity. The lack of due diligence and negligence in fulfilling some of the those required duties has some upset with the job performance of Rec Director Jeff Speed. And the enforcement of Mr. Speed’s job performance rest solely in the lap of Ashford Mayor Carole Barfield.
This failure to complete required tasks and overall management is not due to clerical negligence, but the negligence of the Rec. Director and Mayor Management.
There is to be accountability, transparency, child safety, and no excuses are to be made. Ashford Rec Director needs termination and Ashford Mayor needs to make sure duties are performed.
All policies have exceptions. But some have no exceptions in maintaining proper information which is accurate. And in today’s world that is important.
