You don't think the former cities and the downtown core have different needs when it comes to parks, rec, transportation, housing etc?
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I thanked the Mayor, did you??
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You don't think the former cities and the downtown core have different needs when it comes to parks, rec, transportation, housing etc?
Um....exactly. They weren't dealing with it so we went to our Councelor. Who else are supposed to go to when City workers are not doing their jobs???
I'm sure she went through the lower end routes first. But when something isn't getting done about an issue that is the role of a city councellor to stick up or investigate issues of their constituents that aren't being dealt with at the city level. A Citizen can't get much done at city hall but having someone bigger at bat helps a lot.
I live on a wide one way street which cars always drive the wrong way on at high rates of speed because they are looking for a short cut. Our councellor came down to look at the issue after nothing at the city level was being done. The police did nothing when asked by the residents to patrol. The city did nothing. It took the interest of our representative to get a barrier in place that prevents cars from using the bike lane to drive the wrong way on the street. Reducing council our concerns as tax paying citizens would have not been resolved.
Exactly, thank-you. We actually went through months of going through the lower end routes and being sent from one section to an other as no one wanted to take responcibility in helping us with the issues. Trust me if the issue could have been handled without going to the city for help we would have done it in a heart beat.
Not enough that a single entity couldn't do it just as well. Besides, prior to the amalgamation, there were quite a number of metro Toronto services out there - TTC, and some public parks for example.
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no question, hard decisions, but with every hard decisions comes a cost. i would like to see the groups who are in the best position to absorb those costs be the ones to bear the greatest burden, frankly.
i don't honestly see how many hard decisions he's made.
64 Million returned to taxpayers -
abolished $60 Car registration tax (PVT) $899,000 saved -
reduced Councillors' annual expense accounts from $50,445 to $30,000 $700,000 saved - reduced Mayor's Office budget from $2.7 to $2.0 Million.-
eliminated paper news clippings, switched to electronic. $48,000 saved -
eliminated snacks at Council meetings. $17,000 saved -
Mayor turned down recommended pay raise.
Council supported contracting out garbage collection to residential neighbourhoods west of Yonge Street and in all City parks which will save taxpayers an estimated $11.1 million or 30% annually, and improve customer service.
The use of continuous controls monitoring for overtime was initiated in early 2011 City council voted 40-0 to adopt stronger Whistleblower Protection and enshrine it as a bylaw.
Directed 2011 budget to target 0% Property Tax increase.
Launched work on a new Transportation plan for the City that focuses on road repair for vehicles, and a new subway line for the city.
Accelerated 2011 Budget process to end in February - reducing "unplanned" spending in 2011 by almost 2 months.
Recently announced an Arts & Culture Task Force chaired by Councillor Crawford.
City Council adopted a new graffiti strategy which will help clean up our city and eliminate tagging..
Council adopted a bike lane network that makes sense for Toronto, including the removal of bike lanes on Jarvis. Spending more than $43 million on cycling infrastructure in five years - twice as much as the previous administration.
Public Works has initiated a comprehensive Downtown Transportation Study.
Council endorsed his recommendation to designate the TTC an essential service.
The province passed essential services legislation in March.
Forced changes to the leadership at Toronto Community Housing Corporation, a City agency, after an Auditor General's Report found wasteful spending cost taxpayers an estimated $4-6 million.
The entire board at TCHC either resigned or was forced to step down by Council.
Established a Child Care Task Force chaired by Councillor Mammoliti.
$25 million in savings through the Core Service Review by rationalization of service delivery in a manner which does not affect front line services.
Ensuring the process for all social service (welfare) debit cards by electronic means at a savings of $5 million. Open Government Committee has been formed of all the City's agencies, boards and commissions to focus on how all the divisions can strive for Open Government to best serve the residents.
TTC Board approved random drug testing of employees in safety-critical roles to safeguard public safety.
TTC created a new customer service liaison panel and appointed Chris Upfold as the TTC's first Customer Service Chief.
Council approved the ban of the sale of cats and dogs in pet shops.
Proposed a strategy for the management of the Emerald Ash Borer which is endangering 10% of the City's tree canopy.
Moving ahead on a Public and Stakeholder Consultation Strategy for the Parks Plan.
by the way, Miller's initiatives did not come to fruition within his first few years as mayor. Supporters pointed out they were centred on long-term development goals, while detractors criticized the pace of change (from Wikipedia)
P.S I didn't have to go to the library to search that
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Ford is paying outta pocket for the cards...not the taxpayer
the higher cost was due to the quality level of the card btw...gold lettering or something
imo...if he uses his company and doesn't have to bill the taxpayer then I'll take it as a bonus...even though it's only like $1500
Mayor turned down recommended pay raise.
reduced Mayor's Office budget from $2.7 to $2.0 Million.-
Yea, the guy is definately there to make a buck and make sure his family becomes $1500 rich. He paid it himself, to me a non issue.
Fili-mac
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Yes I realize the 1500 is a drop in the bucket but you can't be complaining about the gravy and overspending in one breathe and go out and do the opposite. Yes he's repaying it but it should have never happened in the first place. The City already has a cheaper contract for issuing cards, not to mention a corporate standard on what they should look like. If this isn't a definition of gravy and sole sourcing.
And that's the gravvy train he was talking about in election and shortly after that? Common, not even close .... But let's say he was just wrong and he really didn't know. 10% budget cut across the board to reach 0% property tax increase ...fail again, because he caved to Blair, the biggest budget consumer by far in the city and let's him actually spent more. These are items which would count in my book.
All the little things you have listed are little and I'd say half of them would have probably happened regardless whether he was there or not because he's not the one who initiated them.
Do you live in Toronto?
Would you rather have David Miller back at the helm? If so....you be out $60 per car and $30 per bike this year, you'd have had a property tax increase far higher than inflation that you'd have covered most of by now being Novemeber, and you'd probably have yet another TTC increase as well. The Cops woulda got a full 10% increase or more and he'd have hired another 1000 bodies at city hall to water plants for $40k per year each. Not too mention what other tax or fee he'd have dreamed up by now. Oh yeah....the garbage guys would be teeing up a strike for the spring of 2012 and that Gangster Kinnear would be drooling over when he could pull another wildcat strike.
With Miller I kept paying more and more and got less and less....with Ford, I'm getting the same service and I'm paying less. So...it's easy math....Ford is my guy. I could care less how smooth his speaking skills are....his actions speak volumes
That's right, you know a government is well run when it starts to looke like a bonus sized bottle of shampoo.
DING! DING! DING!
Thank you, good sir for saying what people here would not say. Thank you for using common sense to make logical factual statements. Thank you again for not being an idiot who posts the first thing that comes to that person's mind. Thank you for stating the truth.
Right on the money. Who the F cares how he speaks. I swear 10 times an hr at work next to people who are on the phones all day with customers cuz I'm over-stressed, but I do an exceptional job according to my boss who won't let me quit
Btw, you can compare Ford and Miller with iOS and Android.
If you want something that's overpriced and gives less you can have iOS, but it's pretty to the sheeple
If you want something that gives more for less you can have Android, not the prettiest, but does what you want for the amount you pay.
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Yup, the leftard elitists wouldn't be caught dead with nothing less than an Iphone in their cold hands. It's all about image with them.
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