Re: City Fiscal Responsibility
It never ceases to amaze me how our city seems to misuse our tax dollars.
On a regular basis, the coin boxes for the pay parking lots are emptied, which is of course a necessary job. What I question is why it is necessary to have two people paid to do a job that only one person is performing?
Regularly I have watched this team perform the same job and it is always done the same
way. The woman empties the coin box while her male partner sits in the city truck drinking his beverage and or eating as he was this morning. How is that right? After a call to city hall, I was informed that it was considered a "security issue". If someone decided to grab the money from the woman, the man in the truck would be no help at all. By the time he put down his drink and or food and opened the truck door, never mind actually exiting the truck, the culprit could have seriously hurt his co-worker and or would have the money and been long gone.
Who oversees/manages and decides when jobs are being performed properly? Where is the accountability for work performed? Wages for the jobs are not inexpensive; we are talking about a significant amount of money here. Who decides when it is justifiably earned?
This just seems to be one more example of our hard earned tax dollars being wasted away. When does fiscal responsibility start appearing?
H. Pittet
Prince George
