Earlier this evening, I sent a email message to all members of Williams Lake City Council regarding a concern I had with regard to new public updates on the Mackenzie Avenue Rehab Project (FYI - the last update from the City on this project was Thursday, August 5th)
The message I sent to Williams Lake Council was:
As you all are aware, the City had been up to August 5th sending out weekly updates on the progression of the Mackenzie Avenue Rehab Project but I’ve seen nothing since then. I did recently discuss this matter with the CAO (Brian Carruthers) and he advised that he was looking into the matter. However, as a matter of principle, just because an emergency exists either in the City or close by, the residents’ expect/require that the City is still able to deal with routine business. I ask you to look into this matter and ensure that regular updates on the progression of the Mackenzie Avenue Rehab Project continue ASAP. In addition, I found out, the hard way, that access to Mackenzie Avenue from Rose, Boundary, Pine and Maple Streets were blocked, due to paving on Mackenzie Avenue, and the general public was entitled to that information so they could plan alternate routes accordingly.
I've since received an answer from Williams Lake City Councillor Geoff Bourdon, who states:
As for the interruption in reporting, that is proof that the city is running as efficiently as it should be. We should not have so much free time that we can take on the biggest natural threat that the City has ever faced and still be able to continue all other business as usual.
Now - unless I was assaulted while I was reading this.....what Councillor Bourdon is saying is that there is no issue here. I have replied to him stating that the public, for the $3.5 million borrowed for the Mackenzie Avenue Rehab Project, is entitled to know what is going on, and if the City can not handle multiple situations at once then it is up to Council to reduce the number of tasks on Staff so that they can do multiple things (emergencies & routine business) without either suffering
2 comments:
You continue to amaze me with your complete lack of intelligence, and complete lack of understanding as to how things in the real word actually work!
Councilor Bourdon is spot on. His response to you was excellent.
It's tragic your ability to access Mackenzie was inconvenienced for a few minutes while staff were trying to make sure the City was prepared for a potentially enormous disaster....what were they thing??!! How dare they!! They should have known the City was going to almost burn down months ago and planned for it so you could make your right turn!!
Spot on sir, spot on. The psychopathic nature of your comments with just a hint of narcassism is just this side of disturbing. Please stop acting like you represent the people and their best interests as you clearly are nothing more than self serving. Id rather the City be to busy stopping and preparing its citizens for the fire then worrying about a road. You should be ashamed.
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