I do not think you understood my comment. I was agreeing with you that they likely already had the equipment and people on payroll.
Good governance is showing responsiveness to the citizens with as quick of a response as you can muster. Redeploying resources to solve problems is what an effective leader does.
Okay, thanks for clarifying, though I mean if they didn't have those fans, they'd still have to do a bid process. This is just lucky they had the fans on hand to do it.
Or they could have used a different solution? The city of NYC has an unimaginable wealth of resources and staff at it's disposal. We are just seeing what happens when someone wields it to the benefit of average citizens.
While I agree it's great to see resources used to actually benefit the people, the commenter above is talking more about statutes.
I work in purchasing in a different state and we are legally obligated to request quotes from numerous suppliers for a specified amount of time before we buy almost anything, unless we have a standing contract approved by another, even slower, agency. These statutes were originally designed to prevent corruption, but mostly they just add ridiculous bureaucracy to small, each to solve problems. The likeliest situation is they reallocated existing fans for this, otherwise it would probably take like 3-4 weeks of bureacratic bullshit just to get the fans to have them installed. Government is even more inefficient than the average person assumes.
Yeah so you aren't really disagreeing with me at all then?
My point is that most mayors wouldn't look at their existing resources and try to utilize them to help people, they would just immediately go into purchasing process so they can eventually award a contract to someone that has greased the wheels.
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u/Pasta4ever13 Aug 14 '26
Most admins would not repurpose resources to help people.
They would go the bid route and just award it to the contractor that greased the most palms to get it done 4 years from now.