Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Last NIght And The NIght Before":
Take away points from this post...
1. A delegate, no matter where they are from, asking for a fee waiver has no direct impact on budget discussions. It is even more horrendous if they have anything to do with St Kitts.
2. Effective councillors are created when they baffle the simpleton public with bulls**t rather than intellegence.
3. The Mayor and CAO are making decisions without the benefit of council discussion. hmmmm sound familiar?
4. No news is good news from an employee staff performance perspective. I guess if we hide in our shells and not hear about any problems, there cannot be any problems.
5. We are spending $10k on a provincial membership for the second year in a row. Where was our eagle-eye councillor to pick this up last year????? I think she has let us down, perhaps too busy with lawsuits and such.
6. Executive staff at the Town are paid in excess of $100k per year. This is too much if we have to pay the province another $10k to help them perform better - even if it is not immediately noticed.
I think this post is proof that at least one councillor is out of touch with the reality of living in 2011. I don't think we are in Kansas anymore Toto.
Larry Fyne......
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If the poster was paying attention last year. he would be aware, this councillor did not support the 2011
Budget. The main focus being the half million dollars given away to the Culture Centre Board with no requirement to council for its spending.
$100,000 granted to the Arboretum group to spend as they determine, was a second substantial figure beside which all else pales in comparison.
The CAO has authority to make expenditures up to a certain figure well beyond $10,000. I believe the figure is closer to $50,000.
In the CAO's first year, we had $75,000, in the budget for "leadership training". And I believe a similar amount in the second year.
Those first two budgets were in the last term.
Stay tuned. More info to come from this year's budget.
Last year's budget was the first for this council, within weeks of election to office.
This year's story is not yet complete.
I am not hopeful.
What is that man smoking ?
ReplyDeleteThe literary reply to Larry goes,
ReplyDelete" F.... Off, Toto, We're not in Oz ."
It's a hoot when someone clearly still wet behind the
ReplyDeleteears politically and intellectually tries to teach Evelyn
how to conduct herself.
There were always kids like Larry at the camps for inner city children. They would trail their fingers in the water beside the boats even though they had been
ReplyDeleterepeatedly warned about snapping turtles and blood
suckers.
Who is blazes quoted Andy D. on this website ?
ReplyDeleteDid Andy say that ? Or was it his partner on a rare
ReplyDeleteoutburst ?
Got to love it when she does not address any of the issues presented......
ReplyDeleteRespond to the points, not some airy-fairly platform.
Andy, not Pascoe
ReplyDeleteLarry, you sound so much like Guy Poppe that it is
scarey. Are you the best they have to send out ?
To: Anonymous 30 November, 2011 8:03 PM
ReplyDeleteTwo questions.....
1. Who is Guy Poppe?
2. Who are "they"?
I am just trying to understand Mrs. Buck's original post. It seems to me that some of the "issues" she has with the current council are the same issues that she had with previous councils.
So, we have had an election. What has changed? What is the same? How can we have had the great cleansing but things have not changed? It must fall into the laps of what has not changed?
Larry Fyne....
Ancient Aurora History 101
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