Letter from John Hamill

City Needs New Leadership

How many photo ops can one mayor have? One? Maybe a dozen or more? On Mayor Drnek’s Facebook page, he’s got more photo ops than policies to help end the drug epidemic as well as the homeless problem and other issues in the City of Oneonta.

This is simply not the right kind of leadership nor the right type of strategy to be running the City of Oneonta. As I said before, another committee will not solve this problem, but better leadership will. Recently, the mayor got into a spat with someone based on what happened at the Town House Motel and I firmly agree with the individual who argued with the mayor. In previous comments on the situation, the mayor blamed all entities except for the one who should be responsible: himself.

Mayor Drnek has had two and a half years to solve the problems that I mentioned above and no solutions except for bypass the problem with no solution, no accountability, and certainly not listening to the public. The city needs a mayor who will lead and take the helm, not be a photo hog posing for photos every chance they get.

John Hamill
City of Oneonta