Citizen complaint of the day: Feast or famine when it comes to playground water sprayers

Are you kidding me on the long Fourth of July heatwave weekend? The lack of leadership by Marty Walsh is astounding. Baker is as bad if not worse on the state level. A real leader would call his Park Commissioner (who is probably down the Cape) on this 90+ degree beautiful day and order him to the scene of each of these embarrassments and say, "if you humiliate me again, you will be escorted out of the building but for now, just leave the keys to your city owned SUV on my desk and get back to me by noon tomorrow when every splash pad is working."

Actually, a real leader wouldn't have to do that because his Chief of Staff would have already chewed out the Park Commissioner and those dozens of mid-level, six figure bureaucrats responsible for these things. I couldn't help but chuckle when a "water feature" was approved as a key part of the City Hall Plaza upgrades. If they can't maintain what is essentially a sprinkler for kids, good luck maintaining a large fountain where homeless and others will be bathing, diving for coins or simply cooling off. The Registry scandal is somewhat similar. Just put the 311's and out of state suspensions in that Rubbermaid bin over there. Disgraceful by Walsh and Baker.