I think it would be cheaper to have Madden continue, it's his job anyway.

I agree. Why do we need to hire more out of town 'recruits' for these kinds of salaries with our tax dollars?

I see wasting money to hire a recruiting firm. We have a large city administration. If the city administration cannot hire someone then just what do they do. I think that is the big story hear.

What is the point in actually HIRING someone and paying them good money... to tell the city who to hire??
I would think they could do that for themselves...or are they just too damn overworked down there at cityhall?

I can't believe that our city doesn't have anyone in admin.capable of hiring someone. We must have a human resources department...Wonder what they do to earn their paycheck. We need consultants to tell our engineers how to engineer...We need consultants to tell our traffic people where to build roads...We need consultants to tell our people to dredge the river..What we need is a consultant to tell us how to get rid of the dead wood in the administration. Hope the new mayor and council have the guts to crack the whip and clean house.

With the way ticket sales are going with the Couger games, there will be no need to manage relationships with them, because they will have left town for greener pastures.

The City already loses money on these games, and if you can beleive the Cougers owners, who state they need a minimum of 3000 fans per game to make money, then they must be losing also.

If the Cougers leave, then there will be a huge hole at this facility that could never be filled. In any event you cannot run the place at a deficit to prop up a private business (The Cougers are a business, not a City recreational facility) so at some point you have to find a way to increase revenue, or they leave.

The only way to increase revenue is to get the ticket sales up, and I suggest the chance of than happening are NIL.

We can hope Palopu...we can hope...but I am not going to hold my breath...it doesn't seem, in my opinion, as if the upper echelon has much between the ears...to figure out they aren't really wanted but all that many....

"If the Cougers leave, then there will be a huge hole at this facility that could never be filled. In any event you cannot run the place at a deficit to prop up a private business (The Cougers are a business, not a City recreational facility) so at some point you have to find a way to increase revenue, or they leave."

I say if the Cougars leave then we need to operate the Multiplex like a Roman coliseum.

We can hire gladiators and lions.

Any politicians that don't live up to their election promises will have to enter the ring to fight the above for their lives.

I be thinking that would sell tickets.

If the Cougars leave town maybe we could have our new PAC in the CN centre.

Administration is just that, administration. They adminstrate. They do not engineer. They manage engineers. They do not mange people, they manage contracts.

Maybe people are simply tired of pretending they are still in high school and go to watch rah rah spectator sports.

People seem to buy more expensive tickets to the old pop musicians. Nostalgia and all that. Each show is different. Pick and choose the one you want rather than go to the same old all the time.

Time to get those who are willing to pay those prices into a nice new PAC and they will not believe the difference in sound, sightlines, short distance to the performers. No binoculars needed.

Has the manditory 4 or 5 studies been done before deciding to hire a recruitment firm?