Friday, July 11, 2008

Exhibit A: City Manager Baldwin's Remote Management Style

Joe Kroll, who almost single-handedly keeps the City running and responded in a timely fashion to the boat ramp lighting problem, included the City Manager in his original e-mail to me.  I "replied to all" to collectively thank the city and received the following message:

is is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

      rbaldwin@LakeWorth.org

Final-Recipient: rfc822;rbaldwin@LakeWorth.org
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
X-Display-Name: Robert Baldwin

Do you think that Joe doesn't know that the City Manager won't receive e-mails?   Or, does this message get sent only when someone outside the City network tries to e-mail him?  Let's hope this policy changes and doubly hope that at least the staff is able to communicate with the head administrator.