Look At This

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Twittering or Tweetering":

"Within the last two years I have seen the corporate communications department changed to a public relations arm of the Mayor's office without approval of Council."

Where does it say that council has to approve this? Please provide links to either the Town bylaw or to Provincial legislation to justify your contention that this is illegal. If it is not legal then I guess you just have your nose out of joint that you were not consulted. Too bad

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Yesterday I added a  post in response to this comment. I kept it in draft. This morning I  deleted it.

The Comment  can be allowed to stand by itself.

I invite readers to imagine who might have written it.

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I make only one point; When the corporate communication division was established , it would  have to have been approved by Council. Staff had to be retained. Budget had to be provided.Only Council can approve a budget. Only Council is accountable for taxes collected.

No  administrative functionary  has  authority to impose taxation on the community.

The purpose of  corporate communications  would certainly have been spelled out to Council and the benefits thereof  and funds approved by council.

Expansion or changes to the function, leading to increased hiring  and cost,  remain  the function of Council. Not the administration.

My nose is not out of joint.

When a function changes  and expands without Council approval, the  authority of Council is disrespected.

When Council  is disrespected, the people who chose the Council are disrespected.

Even when Councillors are ignorant of their  collective authority that is still a fact. It is also a problem.

When  people  without  municipal  experience,  hired into an administration, are not wise enough to know what they do not know,they are certainly not wise enough to teach, as I was taught,the difference between elected and administrative authority.

That is a much more serious problem.

The weight of responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of whoever  does know ,to make sure the ignorance  and disrespect does not continue unabated.

No-one should imagine,I am not up to that task

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Some hae meat and canna eat. And some would eat that  want it.

But I have a blog. And a council seat. And sae the Lord be thankit.