It has been almost 10 months since Ed Fitzgerald won the election to become the Cuyahoga County Executive and in looking at his performance to this point anyone who follows objectively will be less than impressed with his performance thus far.
To this point Ed has focused on cutting county employees but, not at the pace that was to be expected to this point. Only 256 employees have been cut and an estimated (by his numbers) $14.3 million has been saved by the public. These figures were expected to be a lot higher when we went to this form of gov't, I heard 2000 employees and about $50 million to be saved.
The part that is unacceptable is the fact that Ed has spoken very little about bringing jobs and economic development to the region. This is indeed the Primary role of the county executive and little has been done to answer these questions. It seems as though Ed is focusing on making the county more transparent which indeed is commendable but, indeed at some point in time Ed is going to have to address his role as bringing jobs and economic development to the region.
To this point Ed deserves an "D-" for the performance he has delivered to the public to this point.
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