By Pepper Parr
April 19th, 2020
BURLINGTON, ON
City Manager Tim Commisso’s life has been boiled down to a single word – Risk!
City manager Tim Commisso
Everything he looks at is seen through a single lens; it is as if he is wearing a monocle.
Every decision is – what is the risk of doing something or the risk of not doing something.
His one job is to ensure the city provides the services needed to keep people safe and that staff provide the services needed to keep the city operating. It is a challenge.
Few have much in the way of an idea as to just how complex this is.
Commisso runs the show. His word is the final word. He listens and takes advice but at some point he has to make a decision and be held responsible.
He doesn’t always get it right. He had to learn to open up and ensure that members of Council were kept in the loop – aware of what was being done and why.
He is now giving Councillors a report each week.
He has the best people on the city payroll available to him at that virtual table – they communicate as a group twice a day – all by telephone.
The Mayor is reported to be the backup and takes turns chairing the Emergency Coordinating Group (ECG)
The two charts below show the ECG organizational chart that was created March 17th. The detail quality is poor – we have asked the city for a graphic with a higher resolution.
Commisso has set out the timeline he plans to follow in reporting to Council.
CSSRA is the acronym for the Corporate Services, Strategy, Risk and Accountability Standing Committee that is chaired by Rory Nisan with Paul Sharman as the vice chair.
If Mr. Commisso has final say can I ask why this is taking place?
Angelo Bentivegna Ward 6 posted a job.
April 17 at 11:45 AM ·
Alton Village is hosting a community wide, social distancing clean up event on Sunday April 19, Monday April 20, Sunday April 26, and Monday April 27. Families can sign up for an area and time slot that ensures no one is cleaning up near another family. Everyone is responsible for their own gloves, bags, etc to ensure no cross contamination. All regular safety precautions are to be followed.
We are looking for volunteers to signup and help clean up, as well as a few people with trucks who’d be willing to take the garbage bags to the dump on the Tuesday following each week’s clean up.
Link to sign up is bit.ly/Altonvillagecleanup
Alton Village Community Forum Residents of Alton Village & Alton Village West North BurLINKton Neighbours Headon Forest community Group, Burlington Headon Forest Millcroft Community BurlingtonMillcroft Against Development
Residents have been told to STAY HOME, Go out for essentials only, Minimal exercise and don’t travel from one area to the other. Mixed Messages are being sent out by this City.