CM Clutterbuck proposes eliminating bilingual honor-system giveaway (updated)
HERE is a strange lede from a news story:
In Houston's massive $4.2 billion budget, bilingual pay is a blip on the radar.
It's a $1 million "blip" annually, according to Councilmember Anne Clutterbuck, and a "blip" that is funded completely on the honor system. Clutterbuck proposes that, going forward, the City specify language needs when it offers jobs, instead of just offering to pay any employees who say they are bilingual.
That sounds way too sensible to us -- she surely won't put together a majority!
UPDATE: Some special interests are already upset, right on cue!
UPDATE (06/21/2010): Councilmember Clutterbuck has clarified her intent (not that we really thought it needed clarification):
After hearing concerns from the public and administration, Clutterbuck has offered substitute language to her amendment that reads: Eliminate bilingual pay for all non-classified employees unless the employee is in direct contact with the public, demonstrates proficiency and there is a reasonable expectation that the language will be used in the normal course of their job duties.
The Councilmember continues to sound eminently sensible. That will never do.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/19/10 07:33 PM | Print |
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