City officials are considering creating a full-time “urban rodent mitigation coordinator.”
The Times has reviewed this proposal carefully and reached a conclusion: That is a rat czar.
Salary: up to $118,000.
For $118,000, this person had better personally fight the rats.
We expect boots. Flashlight. Protective gloves. Possibly a small shield.
Instead, the job description emphasizes interdepartmental coordination, data collection and community engagement.
The rats are eating tremendously well while we organize committees against them.
New Concordia already employs sanitation workers, health inspectors, code enforcement officers and enough administrators to populate a respectable midsized suburb.
Give somebody currently on payroll authority to buy traps.
Should City Hall proceed, we demand measurable results. Every quarterly report should contain two numbers: rats before and rats now.
Anything longer was written by the rats.