Mosquito Control Needs Modern Organization

Mosquito Control is undergoing a major relocation and it has the opportunity to organize in a manner appropriate to a small, modern utility.  The Board should use common sense and good organizational practice in establishing work locations, functional relationships, and geographic identities.  It should also anticipate continuing use of technology to reduce some manual tasks.  Specifically, if Marathon, which has undergone a significant expansion of offices, is now going to be the headquarters, than all core management departments should be located there.  The new operations building on Big Coppit should be limited to housing personnel with geographical responsibility in the Lower Keys.  The idea of having the Finance Department work out of Big Coppit because a few employees don’t want to move is absurd and is contrary to good management principles.  The Big Coppit property should be sized for operations personnel only, while recognizing that future technology, such as automated mosquito density counters and drones for breeding area monitoring in mangroves is likely.  Mosquito Control should move forward with a modern, cost effective organization, rather than backwards to a bloated, inefficient utility that wastes our tax money.  Concerned citizens’ should attend the next Board meeting on May 21^st at 3PM in Marathon.