"Cowardice asks the question...is it safe? Expediency asks the question...is it politic? Vanity asks the question...is it popular? But conscience asks the question...is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it is right." ~Dr. Martin Luther King

Thursday 15 April 2010

Quick Answers

1. If the Anti-Litter Ad was separate, whatever it costs was too much. We have a web site or several and the Town Notice Board costs us about $80.000 a year in the Aurora Banner.

2, Residents who back on to the lane provide for its maintenance. Its an unopened road allowance but not really. It's only twenty feet wide. Not enough for a road .

3. The Mayor has a habit of re-phrasing my comments to reflect something completely different to what I've said and to my detriment. No doubt she sees that as exemplary conduct in a leader, raising her to the lofty standard expected of an elected representative as enunciated in the Code of Conduct.

4. The request was for a list of people who left the town's employment during this term.Why they left is not relevant to the point of discussion. The loss of knowledge of the history of the operation is the same.

The Mayor and Councillor MacEachern were thoroughly entertained when I referred to the one year estimate it takes for a new person to get up to speed in a key role in any administration .

It cost $14,000 to recruit the municipal clerk and we had to do that twice within a twelve month period . That was $28,000.

We had three town clerks in that period. The first retired. The second signed a five year contract.
Decided eight months later, the day after returning from two weeks vacation to take "early retirement" That was the day after she provided me, as required to do by law, with the first decision of the first Integrity Commissioner.

That was the same week the first Integrity Commissioner was " stripped of his authority "

The third clerk commenced employment within twelve months of the first one's retirement.

We saved money when we replaced the Town Treasurer who submitted his resignation on the day the new Chief Administrative Officer commenced employment.

We didn't have a recruitment despite the fact the Municipal Act requires it. He was appointed by the Chief Administrative Officer ,despite the fact appointment by Bylaw is the jurisdiction of Council.

Then we had the recruitment of a new Integrity Commissioner with five months left of the current term of office to run. That probably cost $14,000. But that contract can be terminated with thirty days notice.So if a new Council decides they have no need of the service, they are not stuck with it.

Is there anything else?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yes there is, How much did that blue hued bit of electioneering propaganda in yesterdays Banner cost the tax payers,

And

what was the final cost of the artifical turf , there seems to be some disagreement among some on another blog, if you have the numbers then publish them here