The third and final disturbing nugget we read about in the Dispatch the other day was also courtesy of LEDC member Sid Ball. Here’s what he said when he was trying to defend the re-appointment of three inbred insiders [Talbert/Monroe/Erwin] who don’t want any scrutiny, competition or accountability. He was trying to convince us of their dedication to the job:
“He added that the incumbents who are up for re-appointment ‘spent five hours the week before interviewing candidates for the EDC Director Job'”
Wait…WHAT?!? You’re telling me that morons like Monroe and Talbert are the ones who get to select the next Economic Development Director?? That is a CITY EMPLOYEE position that pays quite a pile of money (six figures in salary plus benefits). Shouldn’t that be a job for the City Manager and City Council?
The LEDC board are a bunch of volunteers who are appointed by City council (supposedly, but clearly not really). They have shown themselves to be inept at just about everything and have ZERO skin in this game. And you’re telling me THEY are the ones picking out the next EDD? That is completely insane.
Has this always been the case?? Did they also select Stacy Ybarra? Because they really did a bang-up job there, didn’t they? She was here 18 months and accomplished absolutely nothing before she “resigned.” What a fucking joke.
Here is the graveyard of EDD recently:
Cherry Hargrove (2010? – June 26, 2013)
Kathi Masonheimer (March 2014 – 2017)
Mandy Walsh (Feb 13, 2017 – Oct 5, 2022)
Stacy Ybarra (Jan 2023 – June 2024)
Gee, who WILL the LEDC pick next? Maybe they’ll pick TJ Monroe – who just got booted from their little club, LOL. Now THAT would be hilarious.
Reminder: in 2014, Kathi Masonheimer told us that all they needed was to run utilities to the business park and they’d be on easy street. Which they spent millions doing. That was 10.5 years ago!
“We get at least a lead a week from the governor’s office, and every one of the prospective companies want land with infrastructure already in place,” the new Lampasas official said. “Having available land with infrastructure makes it so much easier to attract those primary job manufacturing businesses.
Yes, they get a “lead every week” from the governor’s office! Whatever happened to that line of bullshit? Guess I was right all along that it was a crock of shit, because NOW they are hiring a broker to try and get someone into their $7.5 million dollar Business Pork Project.
The new rumors are that Saint Talbert, Patron Saint of the Dimwitted HERSELF has a viable company ready to move in there soon. I cannot wait!!