After Cherches left, I believe George Kolb arrived from somewhere in southeast United States. Mr. Kolb had some good points but didn’t relate well to people so he was soon history.

Kolb was followed by “acting” city manager, Ed Flentje, a WSU professor, who more or less temporarily filled the city manager’s seat at city council meetings.

Then came the short and aborted attempt to bring former Sunrise, Florida, city manager Pat Salerno from Florida to Wichita. Word on the street was that while visiting Wichita to look for a house, Pat recognized the hopelessness of doing anything constructive with Downtown Wichita due to the white elephant downtown arena and its unbelievable lack of parking and no tenant. So Salerno said NO TO WICHITA and let the chips fall.

Then the city council looked at the city’s stable of potential acting city managers and chose Scott Moore, an assistant city manager with excellent people skills if minimal experience in managing larger cities.

Again word on the street is most people feel the city council should settle back and give Scott Moore a chance to show his skills for at least a year. This would give time for the next April city elections to take place with a probable turn-over in city councilmen.

But, again, it appears the same city council people who messed up the Pat Salerno search are again out hiring another expensive search firm to come up with more names of city manager prospects.

So look for more big tax expenditures for travel and dinners by council people with little or no progress.