Core Review Now Into Phase 3
Monday, July 16, 2012 @ 6:17 PM
Prince George, B.C. – The tab for the Core Services review has now hit $108,101.20 and there are three phases left to complete.
Phase 3 is getting underway with the publication of the Service Profiles on the City’s website. This is being accompanied by an online survey, and public workshops to help identify the public expectations for these services.
The deadline to register to take part in the public workshop is Wednesday, July 18th. The public workshop is set for July 25th at the Prince George Civic Centre.
Councillor Brian Skakun says the online survey which seeks public input on various services, is confusing to a lot of people.
Mayor Green says it is up to the public to read the service profiles to have a better understanding of what is being discussed before they offer an opinion on the future of those services.
So far, with people able to fill in one or more surveys online, the highest number of surveys completed for any one service is 130 and the lowest number is 30. While it is not clear how much weight KPMG will place on these survey results, it is expected KPMG will offer a summary of the results. The online survey will be available until the 25th of this month.
Phase three includes the analysis of the City’s services, organizational structure, governance structure and revenues.
The final report is due to be presented to Council in late October.
Comments
I thought they weren’t going to look at layoffs or reductions in service levels, but rather look at redundancies and overlap of services to save us huge coin? Is this core review actually going to find any way we can save even the 300+k we spent on it?
Eactly what I thought. They sure do not ask those kind of questions. The surveyis totally useless.
Skakun asked about that at Council last nigt. He was getting those kind of comments from folks – difficult survey, questions not approprioate ….
The mayor did not deal with that in responding … she avoided the issue by stating that surveys are normal ways of accessing opinions according to her. She said there are other ways to voice an opinion as well.
In my opinion, the question did not go over her head. She is not that stupid. She simply avoided the real context of the question.
And, of course, our Council is far too much of a politically correct forum. Skakun should simply have pursued the question, but he didn’t. That happens far too ofen at Council.
The thing still stands. A terrible survey structure for such an important exercise is not going to help find solutions. The idea should be to try to do the best, not remain aloof of fair criticism during the pocess which can benefit the fine tuning of the process.
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