Director's Involvement Raises Questions

While we applaud progressive changes at Indianapolis Animal Care & Control proposed by Public Safety Director Newman, we have to ask why it requires the intervention of such a high-level person to get things accomplished at IACC? Are we mistaken in assuming that the management and improvement of the IACC division is the responsibility of the IACC administrator, and not the Director of Public Safety? So why would Director of Public Safety Newman want/need to be personally undertaking changes/improvements at IACC? You would think that overseeing the police and fire departments would be enough of a challenge? As he pointed out at his appearance at the IACC board meeting 2 months ago, he is charged with oversight of a budget of nearly $500 million.

The logical conclusion is that  Director Newman has little confidence in Administrator Talley to be able to oversee the operation and improvement of IACC. Rather than requiring Director Newman to further divide up his valuable time, the correct answer seems to be that it's time for a new IACC administrator to relieve the burden of operation and improvement from Director Newman.