Devereaux
A contract is close to being hammered out between the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors and Ontario City Manager Greg Devereaux.
After being inundated with a plethora of applications submitted from online job search websites over nearly a month long submission period, the number was rapidly whittled down to a dozen. That number was basically halved within a week.
Now here we are.
County Supervisors clearly have decided to pursue one of the most qualified governmental managers in the Inland Empire, and ostensibly the most qualified within the county to take the reigns of an operation desperately in need of an organizational management makeover and an injection of accountability.
Devereaux developed a vision and plan for Ontario and executed it.
San Bernardino County appears to be lining up Devereaux to do the same for its paralyzed administration.
Looking at the two main factors that have pretty much hurt county government for more than a year, the first being ineffective leadership and managerial control, and amazingly the second being a District Attorney playing a high stakes political chess match with county supervisors, Devereaux definitely provides a big step forward.
A Devereaux hire would be one of the best moves the county has made in years.
What this county needs is a fresh set of eyes and no bridges to sitting elected officials. Devereaux may be the best thing since sliced bread, but shouldn’t this county at least try to overcome its’ reputation of corruption and cronyism that it has spent the past 15 years building up? Devereaux just continues the Harry Mays tradition of being appointed CAO because of who you know. Maybe, just maybe, there really is an experienced, innovative administrator with a more successful track record than Devereaux who has absolutely no ties to, or with, San Bernardino county. Oh, you’re right: If there was such an applicant, the present BOS bozos would never hire him/her!!!
The BOS, especially Ovitt, want Devereaux for convenience sake. The Devil is in the details because he is as corrupt as they come and even relishes the role by referring to himself as a son of a bitch. I sure hope he came from the loins of a dog since anyone that would insult their own mother to this degree is an insult to everyone’s intelligence. Be careful BOS, you guys just might get what you’re asking for, TOTAL INCOMPETENCE. Then again, you don’t need any real management savvy to slash and burn an organization, just to run it afterwards (when Ovitt and Biane are up for re-election). Tbss.