GEDC - $20,000 Position

So part of this weeks agenda at the council meeting was to hire a person as a personal assistant to Carolyn Gibsons. The GEDC board would pay $20,000 of the salary.  (Mind you GEDC just says tax dollars from another pocket)

I'll be honest, I'm not exactly sure what Ms Gibsons position is, though I know that GEDC pays a good bit of her salary.  I do though remember when she was hired that a good part of her position was to get grants and help GEDC with communicating with potential employers wanting to move to or expand in Gonzales.

So this new person will be there to, and I quote, "return phone calls and emails". 

I speak from personal experience, as I'm still awaiting a response to an email sent over 6 weeks ago, that Ms Gibson lacks the discipline or organizational skills to timely return calls and emails. 

My question though is do we need to hire ANOTHER person to do the work Ms Gibson was hired to do in the first place?

Look we've been through this before at JB Wells.  We didn't get the person in charge the training they needed to make them a better employee.  Instead we waited for years until it festered and blew up.

So why don't we, instead of hiring a new person, spend 1/2 that money and send Ms Gibson to school to teach her to be more organized and/or how to do her job better?  There are no excuses not to be able to return phone calls and emails except a lack of organizational skills.  And if we sent her to classes and she started writing grants and communicating with businesses better, don't we as a community think it would pay off 100 fold? 

June 5th the tabled discussion will come back on the floor.  I hope the new council will take a serious look at this issue and make a wise decision for the community.

God Bless
Dennis