By Pepper Parr
July 12, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
There is a solution for the swimming pool allocation problem.
While most people agree that an RFP was not the best administrative procedure to use there is a provision in those documents that we think could solve the city’s problem.
The Termination clause – read it carefully.
The relevant line reads: “…in the best interest of the city without showing cause…”
The city would have to pay “all reasonable costs incurred by the vendor”
The words shown above came out of a document that is currently on the Bids and Tenders part of the city website.
Blake Hurley, City Solicitor, is handling the CAO job as well.
City CAO Hassaan Basit has not been at Council for the past two meetings.
It is our belief that the city is working through the possible approaches and that this is one of those occasions when little should be said until the issue is resolved.
The CAO doesn’t appear to be at his desk; he leaves the city August 4th. The last we heard was that City Solicitor Blake Hurley is serving as CAO “on a normal rotation” basis, which is the way one city Councillor put it.
Council is to meet on Tuesday, July 15th – we should see something on that agenda that would bring the swimming pool allocation issue to a close and let BAD get on with setting up the fall program.
Related news item.
A deep look into how BAD has been managed needed.
Once again Burlington …. your tax dollars at work.
Could this escalate to civil litigation? Discovery, affidavits, expert opinions on fairness—drag out for a year or more, creating instability and bad blood between organizations and their supporters that are supposed to serve youth and the community ?
Will anyone be held accountable for this debacle ?
Going to be fun to watch this group hide (closed door meetings) and try to squirm out from under this one.
As I have stated multiple times. Thank you for posting the actual wording that I refrained from doing. There are other outs in the RFP as well.