(Courtesy Scott Sherman)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOne of the more vocal critics was San Carlos resident Jeff MacMaster, who more or less mounted a campaign to see that it got done.<\/p>\n
After getting no satisfaction, or even response, from the city\u2019s \u201cGet It Done\u201d website, MacMaster turned his attention to Councilmember Scott Sherman\u2019s office, San Carlos being in his District 7.<\/p>\n
He says he got no response there for a long time, and never did speak personally to Councilmember Sherman.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have learned that no one takes responsibility for maintaining this sign. Frankly, I cannot understand why this sign was built with no money earmarked for its maintenance\u201d said MacMaster.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a fair question. It seems the \u201ccommunity\u201d paid for and built the sign, but no one seems sure exactly who the \u201ccommunity\u201d is.<\/p>\n
The replacement letters cost about $250 \u2014 as far as city expenditures go, that\u2019s not very much.<\/p>\n
More on that later.<\/p>\n
Liz Saidkhanian, director of outreach for Councilmember Sherman, said staff replied to all of MacMaster\u2019s emails, but getting answers out of a city bureaucracy often takes time.<\/p>\n
Saidkhanian admits this took way more time than it should have, but again points to having to go through the dance steps mandated by the city.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had to wait until the contractor we identified to do the work could prove he had the necessary insurance to work on a city job, and that takes time. We had to wait for the people who make the letters to send an invoice, and this whole thing just wound up taking way too much time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Saidkhanian said Sherman\u2019s office, and Sherman himself, are working to try to simplify and speed up the way the city handles things like this by cutting away pointless red tape.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no way this should have taken this long,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
The way this was finally accomplished was, in effect, a throwback to the days when there wasn\u2019t a multi-volume set of rules and regulations to deal with \u2014 when bureaucracies didn\u2019t rule.<\/p>\n
It was also probably technically illegal, but no one has sworn out an arrest warrant.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just went rogue,\u201d Saidkhanian said.<\/p>\n
Sherman\u2019s office had the replacement letters in hand, and were more than a little frustrated, as was Jeff MacMaster.<\/p>\n
They\u2019d all had enough.<\/p>\n
Councilmember Sherman finally just grabbed the letters and the glue, jumped in the car, drove to Navajo Road and Park Ridge Boulevard, and glued the letters in place \u2014 with his own two hands.<\/p>\n
Sherman has done things like this from time to time, we\u2019re told.<\/p>\n
It might have been a nice gesture to invite Jeff MacMaster to join him there, but that didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n
Too bad.<\/p>\n
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