"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

Sunday, 27 May 2012

Another List

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Ka-non Responded":

@11:06

Do all the 'issues' in the town lead to only one doorstep?

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None of the issues in the town led to one doorstep.
I would have thought that was  more than apparent.
None of the normal checks and balances that prevent such an appalling record did in fact function. 
People who could not silently comply took their leave.They were replaced.
The turnover has been remarked upon here many,many times.
The insidious effect spilled into every corner.
It took four years to accomplish what  they did.
Of course they had help.
What are you thinking?
Director of Public Works. Quit
Deputy Director Quit.
Town  Planner. Retired . Didn't have to. Different circumstances, wouldn't have. Work was a joy .
Chief Administrative officer.
Solicitor.
Associate solicitor,
Treasurer
Director of Corporate Services.Retired.
Director of Corporate Services Number Two. Quit.  Eight months into the job. 
Manager of Bylaws, Communications Officer. Public works foreman, administrative assistant, numerous others under the radar but very real .
Ah Yes.... let's not forget the Integrity Commissioner who had  a contract that lasted  scarcely long enough to throw out the first complaint which had been filed and  then signed, by six members of  council.    

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The operative word here is 'do '. None of the old problems " do " land on any particular doorstep. They may have come from one source but now we have a new doorstep. Past is gone & we are washing off that doorstep one pail of soapy water at a time. It's sloshing time in Aurora.
S

Anonymous said...

Possible speed-bump here. KA-NON has the history & would be unlikely to ask that question. Do you have a
sheep in lamb's clothes ?