tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post716956928153265835..comments2024-02-24T15:19:02.095-08:00Comments on SPARK NEWS: READER COMMENTS: THE FATE OF PRI & MAXIE JACKSON’S MOVE TO PACIFICAKen Mills Agency, LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00792966356989583664noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post-5104656284598248652018-10-12T11:59:17.030-07:002018-10-12T11:59:17.030-07:00Re Pacifica:
“But they say they are destroying P...Re Pacifica: <br /><br />“But they say they are destroying Pacifica in order to save it.”<br /><br />Huh? Whoever said this should hold up the mirror to their own behavior. <br /><br />“We’ve heard reports that people within Pacifica are undoing positive changes that Tom Livingston initiated. Livingston set up consolidation of the organization’s finances and accounting systems at NETA, a trusted vendor.”<br /><br />Livingston did not “set up consolidation of the organization’s finances and accounting systems…” What he did was destabilize the organization’s finances and accounting systems even further by outsourcing parts of it to NETA who appears ill-equipped to handle the complex finances and accounting of Pacifica. His/and or the board’s decision to go without a CFO is a disaster and further destabilization. Livingston did not have the capability to explain the finances of Pacifica to NETA, nor does anyone else left in Pacifica (now that they’ve purged and marginalized anyone with financial acumen or historical knowledge). NETA is on their own in trying to figure it out. In five months on the job, they have accomplished nothing, except for their poor showing towards helping the tax preparer with the seriously problematic 990 recently filed. Pacifica is in financial freefall with no one guiding and overseeing those operations. Maxie, as ED, should not have to take on this added responsibility of CFO-in-name-only. He is not qualified and it’s too much work for him. Additionally, it shows a complete lack of knowledge by the board of the importance of having basic internal controls. It also violates Pacifica’s own bylaws. <br /><br />All of Livingston’s public statements about this arrangement showed a complete lack of understanding from both him and NETA as to what is needed, including his statements about how much this would cost Pacifica which was seriously underestimated. There are still no budgets for any of the units and the NETA representative did not even show up on the last National Finance Committee meeting call. This is a disaster. <br /><br />“Now some insiders aren’t cooperating with NETA just for spite.”<br /><br />Whoever said the above does not understand Pacifica. It was a given that “insiders” were not going to cooperate with NETA and shows further incompetence and lack of basic knowledge by the board to think this would work. Those “insiders” didn’t cooperate easily with the CFOs when Pacifica had them. But only because the CFOs had some authority over them, and could push them along to do what they had to do, did things get done. As I said above, there is no one in control, only some lower level people at an outsourced company who don’t have the authority to do jack nor the inclination to deal with Pacifica’s particular brand of routine insubordination from employees. <br /><br />But remember: every incompetent and insubordinate employee on Pacifica payroll is someone’s friend! And the board only cares about their positions of perceived power in their very small and limited worlds. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com