So council decides after meeting in closed session to pass a motion to accept "a staff decision" ending the CAO's employment. Let's assume it was her decision (and not that of some ambitious fellow staff member making a bold bid to move up the ladder).
Now what could have driven the former CAO to take such a consequential step? If we allow ourselves a bit of idle speculation while digesting breakfast, perhaps she was mightily miffed that her proposal to find millions in revenue -- not cuts in spending -- had been rebuffed by council. And if our unfounded rumination is anywhere close to the truth, council was wise to have done so. The notion of charging a toll to cross the bridge in Campbellford to pay for a new one in town would have likely been met with fierce resistance, even if it were explained the transit fee would be transitory, say four, five years -- a decade at most.
Now that we have dodged that speculative bullet, we should offer up our thoughts and prayers to council, urging them to find the wisdom and resolve to craft a budget that meets our current and future needs with the least amount of harm to our personal financial health.
(And council, if you are paying attention, I was only joking about a toll bridge.)
This seems unusual, did they not like what she had to say about cuts. It would appear that this May be in a law suit for dismissal. I am looking forward to what the county councillors on the waterfront say about the new bridge. No doubt employees don,t want cuts but see in the news, where Municipalities are complaining no money. I think it is time for Municipalities to cut some fat so there is money for needed projects in Trent Hills case a bridge and hospital. Bring to your attention Trent Hills was going to do a renovation at around a hundred grand according to the picture in the window. They got a grant for Covid around eight hundred thousand and they blew it all on the Municipal office. New furniture etc. Old furniture stored in the old municipal building. How much money did it bring in??? Maybe Art you can get the numbers.
Not living here any more, she probably sat through a very tense meeting (when will we ever find out what that was about) and thought "Who needs this crap any more!"
Re: County CAO no Moore
So council decides after meeting in closed session to pass a motion to accept "a staff decision" ending the CAO's employment. Let's assume it was her decision (and not that of some ambitious fellow staff member making a bold bid to move up the ladder).
Now what could have driven the former CAO to take such a consequential step? If we allow ourselves a bit of idle speculation while digesting breakfast, perhaps she was mightily miffed that her proposal to find millions in revenue -- not cuts in spending -- had been rebuffed by council. And if our unfounded rumination is anywhere close to the truth, council was wise to have done so. The notion of charging a toll to cross the bridge in Campbellford to pay for a new one in town would have likely been met with fierce resistance, even if it were explained the transit fee would be transitory, say four, five years -- a decade at most.
Now that we have dodged that speculative bullet, we should offer up our thoughts and prayers to council, urging them to find the wisdom and resolve to craft a budget that meets our current and future needs with the least amount of harm to our personal financial health.
(And council, if you are paying attention, I was only joking about a toll bridge.)
This seems unusual, did they not like what she had to say about cuts. It would appear that this May be in a law suit for dismissal. I am looking forward to what the county councillors on the waterfront say about the new bridge. No doubt employees don,t want cuts but see in the news, where Municipalities are complaining no money. I think it is time for Municipalities to cut some fat so there is money for needed projects in Trent Hills case a bridge and hospital. Bring to your attention Trent Hills was going to do a renovation at around a hundred grand according to the picture in the window. They got a grant for Covid around eight hundred thousand and they blew it all on the Municipal office. New furniture etc. Old furniture stored in the old municipal building. How much money did it bring in??? Maybe Art you can get the numbers.
Not living here any more, she probably sat through a very tense meeting (when will we ever find out what that was about) and thought "Who needs this crap any more!"