The Excelsior Springs City Council’s decision to hire a private firm, Orion, to manage the city’s golf course may have been an act of genius, or not; but the timing seemed unnecessarily rushed, which naturally raises eyebrows. The reason city leaders gave for providing virtually no warning before hiring Orion in a special meeting appears to suggest concern for golf course employees: “We didn’t want to notice a meeting on Thursday and have employees on pins and needles for six days until the Tuesday meeting; this way we can use today for the employees to meet the partners, schedule one-on-one (meetings) for next week, make offers of employment in the same amount of time that otherwise we would be waiting for the meeting to take a vote.” What is unstated is that the situation also meant employees would have no time to decide whether they considered the move in their best interests; no time to gain public support, if they decided they did not like the idea of having their employment…