42 city employees working for the RCMP. And now there is 41.

hmmm...

Like any government, massive overhead, non productive operations, inefficiency,
government operations are like a cash box with a large hole in it. The money leaks out continuously, so the plan is to keep refilling the box, and don't fix the leak.
I guess you have to have three or four bodies for every job. It never changes.
metalman.

add it up...janitorial staff, front desk reception staff, jail guards, operational support staff, building facility staff, community programming staff etc etc...for a building that operates 24hrs a day, 365 days a year...it doesnt take long to add up to a number in the low 40's.

A modern sawmill with 8 operating staff and 8 maintenance staff on site at any given time, running 24/7 employs around 100 people giving consideration for holiday coverage, vacations, sick days and training days ....

Like any mill operation .. massive overhead, non-productive operations, inefficiencies ... mill operations are like a large cash box with a large hole in it ... the money leaks out continuously so the plan is to keep refilling the box and don't fix the leak ... I guess you have to have 43 or 4 bodies for every job. It never changes ....

;-)

I forgot to add, the efficiencies in mills comes about through tech changes in the automated systems that are created by systems designers, not due to increased effort by workers.

Internal politics

I agree..internal polititcs seems reasonable.
What for the other shoe to drop.

These 42 employees are just a small part of the 750 plus employees it takes to run City Hall, and they keep on hiring.

"He was a city employee not under my command"

Maybe so, but it only takes a phone call from the chief of police to the mayor's office .......

I am wondering about the accuracy of this story. I am related to Ken Corrigan and have heard from the horse's mouth that he wasn't terminated, but retired. Small difference dontcha think?

I can't comment on Ken (because I don't know him), but I will opine that the department he managed was failing this city (look at the hood), and its good to see a shakeup if for no other reason than to instill a new urgancy to the way they serve the public.

Its been my experience that it takes a lot of government employes to keep private industry honest. There is your high government cost.

Hope he wasn't tasered on the way out the door. (kiddingly)

He had nothing to do with the day to day police workings of the detachment. He oversaw the city employees at the detachment. Nothing more, nothing less.

Much ado about nothing.
metalman.

"Its been my experience that it takes a lot of government employes to keep private industry honest. There is your high government cost."

Ah .... paying those who monitor the polluting and noisy asphalt manufacturers for instance...

Of course, the problem there is that it was government employees who accepted the zoning and allowed them to be there in the first place ......

And why did those government employees do that? .. because private industry hired consultants to put in BS reports to government planners that one only has to put in a few berms and everything would be okay ....

And why did those private companies do that? ... because governments who wantd roads built wanted them built for as low a cost as possible so they needed to have the location of the plants as close to where all the roads were as possible ....

And why did the government officials want to have low cost roads? .. because the taxpayers keep screaming about high costs of infrastructure and taxes .....

So, whose fault is it, the government workers or the private workers ?? .. no!! it is all the taxpayers' fault.

;-)

What a preening bag of gas owl is.

About Ken Corrigan, It is rumored he is launching a civil suit against the City and the people behind him being fired,
including the current managers at the detachment, on the city side of things and on the rcmp side too! There are a lot of unhappy people there. Change may be forthcoming, starting at the top! The
"Employee Climate Survey" that was done there had results that were not
released. The results were supposed to be released last August. I think that
because it was not released, this is the telltale sign that it wasn't favourable for the management.

I like having some fun ..... you know, it is what makes life worth living ... those little gaseous emissions of nitrous oxide ..

;-)

It's incredible how many fabricate responses based on the bit's and pieces that they know. Must be the gospel truth eh?

FYI, there are a lot of unhappy people that have worked for any employer, anywhere, so RCMP services is no exception. Add to that the "world owes me a favour" union windbags that jump up and down and stomp their feet to ensure that the squeakiest wheel is indeed theirs and you have a vicious circle doncha.

"I can't comment on Ken (because I don't know him), but I will opine that the department he managed was failing this city (look at the hood), and its good to see a shakeup if for no other reason than to instill a new urgancy to the way they serve the public."

And yet you can quote on an entire department that you obviously don't know anything about. I believe you are actually referring to the RCMP and not the city employees that work there.

Chad didn't know anything about the subject but that has never stopped him before.He must be a journalist.