Well Shari, ex buddy, it appears that you have a penchant for jumping from the pan into the fire.
I see that we have axed Ms. VanMook, that, you would have us believe, saved us $160,000 a year. But wait, I have to imagine she was on contract, so I imagine there will be a severance, that of course will not be made public. Why would it, its only taxpayer money.
But wait, is there more to the story? Let me guess, you shuffled around a whole litany of extra duties to other top-level, high-paid bureaucrats. Again I think they would be under contract. Right? So they have extra duties, so there contracts would have to
be changed to cover the extras. Is one of the extras an added pay increase? Well one has to ask. So in saving $160,000 do we have to spend far more in added payroll and severance.
And then there is the continuing saga of the infamous report of a week ago, that was put forward by our Mr. Gaal, stating all the reasons for lousy snow removal, but wait, a week later there is a followup report discounting the first as untrue, not reliable and full of crap, and it must be the second one where we should throw $5.8 million at the issue and all is well. If your top-level bureaucrats are being slightly misleading to the executive council (you guys), does that not mean there might be a problem in your top people?
Council should not be so ready to take what they want to hear, in place of factual comments. It seems they do not care, and if no one gets caught fabricating a story, it stays as gospel.
So Shari once again I have to say, where is the management coming from within the city?
You and council can not seem to manage the top un-elected, well-paid people, and allow them to run the show poorly. Shari, I do not think the people that really care about this city, possibly more than you, are going to pack up and leave, as you suggested, but I guarantee they will remember all the crap coming from the ivory tower.
Oh, and by the way Prince George populous (that means taxpayers), if you thought snow removal was bad, just wait until it is pothole time. You know the old saving, "You ain't seen nothing yet."
Bill Manders
Prince George
