By Pepper Parr
March 3rd, 2021
BURLINGTON, ON
After a marathon Statutory meeting that had 58 plus delegations who wanted to be heard, Council will be back at the table for a meeting that will include the setting of the tax rate for 2021.
Health, Safety and Well Being are on the agenda. Staff at city hall were surveyed.
One graph tells just how things are going.
As I read the chart:
City Hall bureaucracy has ZERO “inefficient processes” and that’s a good thing!
and the third largest complaint is “lack of breaks” which would seem easy to fix.
Free market – they can leave or as someone said welcome to the real world – not to harsh but private sector is not fun – sound like the canary complaining about the guilded cage
I’m thinking our city staff would have a hard time working in the real world!
Sadly taxpayers think they own city staff and can be quite rude and obnoxious No thank you or compliments just solid complaints 5 days a week . People need to take their frustration out with City Council ,the ones that make the rules etc not the civil servant trying to feed their family
Sadly city staff continually try to tell taxpayers what a tough job they have. Get a job in the real world and we can talk
What your first graph reflects is the growing disconnect between politicians and bureaucrats on the one hand and the tax-paying public on the other. Unfortunately, the public sector seems to function in an alternate reality divorced from what is happening on the ground.