Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Best Practice Alternatives Sought

Is City Looking For Alternatives To Best Practices??

This is one of those head shakers, which I am sure will prove my inability to understand complex city documents.

At the COW meeting of council on January 21 it has been decided that a steering committee made up of Councilors Greves, Johnstone and Kipp will seek out a suitable consultant to tell the city how to do their jobs of running the city.

The fancy working for such an endeavour 'Governance Policy, Structure and Process Review Steering Committee'. This committee will be tasked with finding a qualified consultant to tell council and senior staff how to govern the city properly, make recommendations on the deliverable by the consultant etc. etc.

One of the 'deliverables' this committee is to seek from the expert advisor will be:

"Best Practices Alternatives: providing any appropriate "Best Practices" other than those recommended that may be effective in the City of Nanaimo's circumstances with a comment on their strengths and weaknesses in the City's application."

I realize this could mean we want someone to give us a list of best practices from which we may chose, but it also sounds as if we want alternatives to best practices.

If the latter is the case, then the city should need little instruction as they seem to be practicing alternatives to best practices on a consistent basis.

(Note: if you have read this far, you will know my tongue is firmly planted in my cheek.)

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