IPG Board Rep Addresses Oland Documentation
Friday, March 16, 2012 @ 10:40 AM
Prince George, B.C. – The Vice-chair of the board of directors at Initiatives Prince George says he and the board are fully satisfied that IPG CEO Heather Oland has filed all of the documents she was required to file pertaining to the conditions of her contract.
On Thursday, Opinion 250 reported that Oland has now had her name removed as a director of Commonwealth Campuses, the company that purchased the Prince George Hotel and sold it to the City of Prince George. Oland had been listed as a director of the company until Wednesday of this week, at which time her name was removed. Oland began work with Initiatives on Sept. 8th, 2011. A condition of her employment with IPG was that she divest herself of any interest in Commonwealth. In the October 2011 filings, Oland was listed as a director in the company.
IPG Vice-chair Mark Feldinger says today that “there were lawyers engaged both directly for Heather and for Commonwealth and they informed us that the appropriate divestitures had taken place.” Asked when, he says “that would have been back in the fall.” Feldinger continues “the only thing is I actually got a voice mail from Heather today that apparently the lawyers of the case made a mistake and there was one holding company that Heather still had a position on that they had overlooked. The documents around that are being sent off as we speak and the lawyers are apologetic with respect to their performance around that one.” Feldinger says he does not know which company that is and “from a board perspective it’s an administrative oversight and we really don’t want to make any further issue about it.”
Asked whether Oland had produced all other documents she was supposed to present to the board prior to her taking the job with IPG, Feldinger says “we were fully satisfied with the pace at which she exited her affiliations with Commonwealth as we clearly didn’t want to have a conflict of interest situation either for her or for IPG.”
Feldinger says he doesn’t know the details surrounding the company involved. He says Oland gave him a call this morning indicating that this had been brought to her attention. “She just wanted to give me a heads up and I have told her to obviously just get on with business and let the lawyers do what they need to do in terms of that last indirectly-held position that she was unaware that hadn’t been cleared up.”
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“we clearly didnât want to have a conflict of interest situation either for her or for IPG.â “
Too late Mark!
It is called due diligence.
1. make sure that those you entrust with doing work for you are capable of doing it and that you provide all the information they need to do it.
2. have continuous checks in place that th work is being done
3. at the end of the work, ask for all documents that tell you it is done.
Now, that was personal stuff ……
How about the work “stuff” at IPG moving forward? Will proper due diligence be practiced, both by Oland and the Board?
That is right, the IPG Board. Where was their due diligence?
Hey irri, where are you?
It seems when there is an issue that might be construed as inappropriate concerning people who are hired by the taxpayers we can all be reassured it is being all done above board because “there are lawyers” working on it. Isn’t being a lawyer pretty much a stepping stone toward politics for a lot of people?
Medical question. When something is infected to the core how long does it take for gang-green to set in? Sorry my spelling is atrocious today;-p
These people were elected by us with the mandate to run a city. With the dedicated work of other people who were hired by them to do a proper job, all paid for with the taxes we pay. Without us living here, working here and paying taxes here the whole shebang shuts down and ALL of them would be looking for jobs!
Get real, people! Forget the political shenanigans and posturing (which are just another needless detraction) and start running the city!!!
The last thing we need is political stratification, feuding and grandstanding!
Fix the roads, the potholes, the other infrastructure, provide services efficiently and with some respect for the ability of the taxpayers to pay for it!
Get cracking and do the work you are getting paid for!
Ya might have to wait another three years for them to promise (again) to do the work.
PS- memo to self….. “Do not re-elect these guys/gals next election.” Think ya can do that?
Good one lonesome sparrow
And some of the sickness appears to be in those involved with IPG.
Its time, they shut it down.
Cheers
Is there personal gain? I doubt there would be any. Its probably the process of getting your name off of it.
I would like to know who these lawyers are so I can avoid them. Whoops… my bad is a lousy name for a law firm.
Heather Oland, Commonwealth, IPG, Shari Green, then it’s Commonwealth, Heather Oland, IPG and Shari Green…..Is there a pattern here?
You would be able to figure who the law firm is from the corporate registry documents. It will give their address.
Cheetos, don’t forget to include good ole L&M Engineering in there. Ms. Oland was at L&M Eng. before she moved to LPG and I would bet money on it that L&M Eng. does a lot of work for Commonwealth, etc.
As I have stated before, I hope these people really have a plan in place to make PG a better place. I sure hope that all this BS going on by “them” is just their way of clearning house in order to bring their plan to fruition. Now how naive is that? They can’t be in it for the money, can they? Don’t politicians get involved to help out and make the community a better place. LOL!
Whoops…a few spelling mistakes. Meant to say “IPG” instead of LPG and meant to say “clearing house”, not clearning house.
LPG has definite odour as well.
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