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These reports could be useful—but they
usually are more formality than information --- this year was a ‘C’ – We had already
seen the Audited Statements which was over half the publication --- other
parts were cut and paste too from previous files |
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This is from
Public Works – and format is what the other departments should have been
using |
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Unfortunately
about half dealt with generalities --- Plus
about 5 not included (Airport, etc) at all unlike previous years |
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Solo
performance |
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For
whatever reason Finance compiles the report under the Howie regime (presumably
because of Audit’s inclusion) – But City Manager supposed to sign off after
reviewing --- presumably he did not happen Ditto
the Mayor who in the first version of this had a blank page because he was
still away in China |
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composite of
2 documents—legislation and Tax header |
OOPS |
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Now
if someone would have actually read this they would have seen the 2008
Permissive Tax Exemptions were included and not the 2007 as the statue
requires |
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Tourism PR gets
244T$ -- much of it from hotel tax (which was 40T more than last year |
An Opening |
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City
‘gives’ PREDC 132T$ -- which was 30T$ more than last year – this allowed me
to question if Pond was using PREDC to fund his travels – thus ‘hiding’ them from
audit etc (I will come back to this later) – but Pond denied – saying UBCM
etc pays for much of his travel and not PR taxpayers) |
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Strategic
Planning |
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This
should be the strongest part of document – as report is to illustrate how met
objectives And what will be for the next year – instead there was just a
paste of the Strategic Plan that dates from 2006 |
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Above
excerpted from Community
Charter |
A great idea that deserves more
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The
idea of a strategic plan with measurable objectives and how met in previous year
--- I believe this Council requires such a statement from every organization
it funds --- unfortunately it dos not seem to apply the same criteria to
itself and the Taxpayers/ Citizens are the real losers I
would suggest more use of City Web site – every department should state its
objectives for year etc and how it will measure if obtained – and the pages
should be updated quarterly with measurable units toward those objectives etc
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Created by LG on 14/7/2008
Last updated on Monday, July 14, 2008