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.)
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.)
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!"