And as the SEC prepared its ongoing-disclosure rule, the Tallahassee approach was frequently mentioned by SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt as a model. It wasn't the only instance in which Inzer pushed Tallahassee ahead of the curve. Had Orange County or Cuyahoga had a similar set of controls in place, neither could have lost so devastating an amount of money. Which is probably as it should be for a finance officer who is charged with making sure the fiscal systems and investments of government run so smoothly and cleanly that there's no need for media scrutiny. But I learned from Don Kleman, who was the city manager here for 20 years, that not all investments a government makes can be evaluated in terms of jobs created or how much the tax base will increase.
Some investments are a vision of what a community can be.
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