…. MEANINGLESS
Comparable, in many ways, to those emotionally-challenged among us who still believe that a group of harried waitresses clustered at the edge of your dinner table, and singing some variant of a happy birthday ditty, are capable of conveying genuine and heartfelt words of congratulation on the anniversary of your birth, the City of Wildomar is paying someone on City Staff to send birthday greetings to folks who have no relevant connection to (such as being a resident of) the City of Wildomar.
Please click on the following link to the city of Wildomar’s silly Facebook (you will have to be logged into your own Facebook page to do this, if you have one, or observe the example below) page to confirm:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=1769075316
“Patricia, the City of Wildomar…” on Patricia Calvin‘s Wall.
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“Mimi, the City of Wildomar…” on Mimi McLay‘s Wall.
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“Elliott, the City of Wildomar…” on Elliott Nissim‘s Wall.
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“Clinton, the City of Wildomar…” on Clinton Wade‘s Wall.
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“Neil, the City of Wildomar…” on Neil Simard-Realtor‘s Wall.
It appears to be an endless, obsessive exercise in silliness.
Few of the celebrants are citizens of the City of Wildomar.
Presumably, most of these people are “Friends” of Wildomar’s Facebook page which, to my recollection, was never authorized by a properly agendized vote of approval by the City Council in the first place.
I doubt that the recipients of Wildomar’s birthday wishes even notice the recognition, as there is rarely any responsive memo of thanks posted in return.
Therefore, it is obvious that the Executive staff, perhaps even His Redundancy, City Manager Frank Oviedo has knowingly authorized someone on his staff to be an official representative of the City for this silly, meaningless exercise.
Meaningless, save for the actual expense of staff to do so. The staff time taken to do this must be allocated somewhere in the budget.
What is not meaningless is the imprimatur of the City’s express approval of the authorized use and access to the city’s logo and brand.
Unless someone on the City Council speaks out with corrective policy direction, or City Staff quietly ceases this practice, the citizens of Wildomar may plausibly conclude that the entire hierarchy of the City of Wildomar is demonstrably emotionally-challenged.
Comments should be made, via your e-mail, to foviedo@cityofwildomar.org
It’s important that the adults of Wildomar have their voice heard. A simple e-mail, from you, asking City Manager to stop this practice should suffice.
This activity would be more appropriate if it emanated from the Wildomar Chamberpot of Commerce.
Then folks who mostly don’t live or work in Wildomar could “network” with other folks who mostly don’t live or work in Wildomar.
By the way, if today is your birthday, Wildomar Magazine and the entire editorial staff, wish you the happiest of birthdays.
(Editor’s note: There is a Facebook function that enables the gathering of Friend birthdays. However, it still takes valuable staff time to initially set this up and then maintain it throughout the year.)
Please click on the following link for reference:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/44594/how-to-setup-birthday-reminders-for-your-facebook-friends-in-google-calendar/
