From what Mr. Ewert said it sounds like a waste of time. The city has an agenda and are there manipulating the folks that come out. In the end Green will say, we’ll that’s what the 50 people that showed up wanted!

So Chairman of the Politburo Ewart makes some ridiculous allegations of political interference in the Core Services Review process and that stops you from participating?

Get on line, review the List of Opportunities document, make constructive comments and sign your (real) name.

If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem.

If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem.
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This is a statement out of the dark ages. Go for it rocky you have been sucked in.

The core review is the righjt wing agenda that City hall did not have the ball to impose. So they took 350,000.00 of our tax dollars to do their dirty work.

As taxpayers all we want is the city to stop[ spending tax dollars on airy fairy projects. Its as simple as that.
Cheers

One could say that the Core Review, City Hall, and KPMG, are the problem, and that the solution is not to support this type of manipulation.

The solution could very well be for the City, and the high paid administration, to do what we are paying them for, and that is to be fiscally responsible when it comes to spending tax dollars.

The Core Reveiw and the participation of some (very small part) of taxpayers some 50 out of a possible 30,000 is a clear message to the City that most taxpayers expect them to do what they were elected, and what they are paid to do.

The idea that we should all participate in this process is BS. Can you imagine getting input from 30,000 taxpayers?? Not bloody likely.

The City will hide behind the Core Reveiw and the less than professional input from some citizens, and then do what they intended to do all along.

Dont be duped by these types of manipulations.

From whatever savings result from implementing any review recommendations one first has to deduct the cost of the review, 350k+.

“…and then do what they intended to do all along.”

They have the final say, so it’s up to them to adopt or ignore anything they want to.

I still don’t get it. Why wasn’t the management of the city given the task to identify and then give recommendations?

The management already knows the city intimately all these decades…better than any outsiders.

Doesn’t a farmer (for instance) know how many acres he has, how many cattle, how many pigs, where the dry areas are and the wet ones, which areas are better for planting, with which crops he had better results and which had proven unproductive?

I mean, this isn’t exactly a huge metropolis about the affairs of which one lose track and flounder in complete unmanagable disarray.

Hey Rocky where are you tell ua more why we need this hair bained scheme to work.
After all Peter Eewert has some good ideas. Lets hear yours.
Cheers

I would have used the term ‘curved’. That’s way more better!

trying to get input from us is another attempt to gain our trust. With that police station staring at us, the Brian Skakun affair, the 425,000 dollar bridge; trust is real hard to get in these parts.

Are you suggesting that our mayor is curvy Traveller? You do know that sort of talk is frowned upon by some people in this day and age, do you?
Luckily, I’m not one of them.

The core review is just a waste of time and money. A good manager could easily conduct a review on his or her own.
Any good business person could do as well. You don’t need to hire a team of accountants to make observations and examine records. The process is more political smoke, mirrors, and B.S.
metalman.

This process is so flawed – another dupe from city.

Because I vote and always have and will – I can bitch. I took the time to review the survey and put my comments in. To have only 20 minutes a session – some sessions have only a couple of questions and others have much more – is ridiculous. Why was this not put in format of a continuous survey? If you do not want to answer the questions then pass it by. But to keep going back to the main page is discouraging. Some of the wording is plain stupid. One needs to watch what they are answering to.

City hall, council and mayor need to get their business and political buddies out of the pitcure. Who came up with the hair brain idea to get the Y to take over the pool? Was it two directors on the Y?

The Civic Centre is just that CIVIC. Leave it alone.

Personally I am glad Ewert and others inform me what is happening behind the scenes of this City. The city damn well won’t.

What I don’t like is that our taxpayer $ built the pool & civic centre and they want to let other people take in the profits. Just remember that the landfill was owned by the City and they never hired their own staff then they turned over to RDFG. The RDFG hired their own staff and they have made big $ from it mostly from the City taxpayers.