Calie Stephens

01/25/06 Commission on Productivity & Innovation

Just wanted to make sure DallasArena.com readers see the DMN article: "Taxpayers at first funded alarm lobbying"

Looks like the security companies weren't the only group interested in the Verified Response issue. In this case, it looks like the city's "productivity" team used money provided by security PATROL companies and other questionable contributors to help sell VR to citizens and to city hall. That stinks to high heaven. At the same time the "productivity" team is badmouthing security companies as having a "vested" interest in having VR fail, it is taking money from security patrol companies and others that have every reason to want VR adopted. What hypocrites you and the other members of the "productivity" team are.

Since there was no rational reason for cities adopting VR in the first place, the "productivity" team had to lie and distort facts to make a case at all to try to justify it to the council and to Dallas citizens. I should have known that something underhanded was going on.

With the complete lack of ethics displayed by the "productivity" team, one wonders if maybe a member or members of the "productivity" team didn't receive a little compensation themselves for carrying the water for the security patrol companies.

I don't know how the members of the "productivity team" can look at themselves in the mirror. This is dishonest and quite probably illegal. Don't feed me with the stuff that they were working without compensation to help the city of Dallas. That kind of help, Dallas doesn't need. The Productivity & Innovation Commission stinks to high heaven. It appears to me to be nothing more than a lobbying group for special interests working under the guise of "volunteers working to make the city better".

They just better hope that a full airing of this unsavory incident is not made available to Dallas citizens.