Mayor defends rising costs in council
Attacked in city council for rising costs, the mayor and her deputy both agreed it’s a problem, but Mayor Plante pointed out that costs for the REM and the renovation of the tunnel – neither of them city projects – are also rising. Sortez de votre bulle et regardez la réalité économique actuelle, Plante responded to the challenge.
Anyone who’s been buying food lately would have to sadly agree with her.
M 19:37 on 2022-11-23 Permalink
That point is right on. But I do think there’s a severe lack of oversight on projects large and small up and down the administrative spine. A lot of that is just a result of too few people hired to verify whether various in-house and external hires are delivering what they are billing for.
I suspect we’ve all heard stories.
For example, the city orders a new vehicle of some sort or the repair of an existing vehicle. The workers given the order to replace a part or buy a new vehicle aren’t given a spending limit so they buy the most costly parts. Or they’re given a work order to contract out some repair but there’s no one whose job it is to verify that the contractor did what he billed for, except unless one of the workers happens to catch it and raises a flag about it.
the city and province too often strike me as large businesses that used to have social value but where people have lost the point of it all and are quietly quitting