Thursday, August 16, 2012
Disgusting Waste Of Taxpayer Money
It is with a sad sense of deja vu that I restate:
With 23 years experience on Nanaimo Council,15 as Mayor, it is safe to assume I am one of the two or three people most knowledgeable of the true need for a City of Nanaimo Communications Officer.
Let's be blunt. There is absolutely zero need for such a disgusting waste of taxpayer's money.
As I stated, when this was first suggested by Diane Brennan in December (conveniently after the elections): "Taxpayers are fed up with wasting money on useless bureaucratic positions. PR flacks are the worst. People want answers from the people in charge (elected or appointed), NOT some PR idiot. Any publicly funded body that has a PR or "communications officer" is wasting our money. Fire them all."
Let me add. Any elected person needing a "communications officer" is either incompetent, lazy, hiding something, or worse.
Any Council member voting for this nonsense has no sensitivity to the poor economy and the taxpayers' anguish over waste in government. If this Council does not come to its senses and reverse this decision (and the equally wasteful hiring of a "communications officer" for the Economic Development Corp), I will, if re-elected to Council, move immediately to "cease all funding for such wasteful expenditures of taxpayer's money".
Gary Korpan
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The Higher Service Level Request for the position states that the position is middle management and that the TOTAL capital and operating costs are $140,000 .... also, that the position reports to the Director of Strategic Relationships.
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