Over at the Daily Union, following concern in Fort Atkinson for some months, one reads that No decision [has been] reached on Fort city manager’s employment status:
….At the meeting Friday, the council met in closed session to “consider employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the government body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility.”
[Evelyn ‘Evie’] Johnson was also present with her attorney Scott M. Paler of Madison to reportedly negotiate a separation agreement with the council. Details of the proposed agreement were not released pending further negotiation….
I won’t pretend to know the whole story here, but perhaps the reason for leaving is of her own doing. After all, when someone comes in and challenges the “status quo”, there are bound to be a few disagreements. Perhaps her vision for the future of the city didn’t quite match that of the establishment? I’m not sure if it’s fair to chalk it up to “she’s too young to handle this”.
I agree with you, I think – my post was poorly expressed.
When I was thinking of this news, I was thinking that young, just like old, by itself is usually not enough to prevail. I’d guess – and it seems a fair guess – that her relative youth was a reason to hire her (new blood, new ideas, etc.).
But youth, like age, may not be enough. It takes many things to hold on and win, and just youth or just age may prove inadequate (for those who may have hired her with a principal trait of youth in mind, and for her goals, too). One sometimes hears the opposite about experience (‘in my many years of municipal experience’) when that experience isn’t been beneficial.
Your point is certainly well taken.
Old White Men can’t handle Leslie Knope…