By Staff
January 9th, 2023
BURLINGTON, ON
Getting it right and listening to the people that pick up the tab has been a consistent theme during the early days of this year.
Served as a senior executive with IBM and serves with passion as a Lions Club member.
Perry Bowker sent us the following on right and wrong in 2022
Right: The re purposing of the Bateman school. Wrong: the general lack of transparency to questions being asked by the public about the deal.
Right: Rulings by the Integrity Commissioner. Wrong: again, some lack of transparency, especially the perception that the IC itself has a conflict of interest
Net: Doing good work in a challenging environment, but need to find ways to be more forthcoming about details when asked by public and the media, and not hiding behind lawyer’s recommendations – they will always counsel silence.
This isn’t the first time we have heard this.
Earlier in the week Stephen White in commenting on the 7% tax increase that is heading our way urged city council to “learn to read the room”.
Relayed opinion piece
They can’t read the room when they aren’t in the room.