This much has become obvious – Mayor Francis is terrified of what writers at the Windsor Square will say. No – not about his self-described “anal” behaviour, but how else to explain Chris Vander Doelen’s column in the June 5 Windsor Star pinning the issues facing the city parks on 204 front-line workers? Last [...]
According to the CBC, food trucks could be coming to Windsor. I say it’s about time. Nearly every weekend during the summer my parents would take my sister and me down to the Bluewater Bridge to enjoy a sampling of what we Sarnian’s called the world’s best french fries. And it seemed we joined the [...]
More than 9 months ago an idea was conceived to address a bulge of complaints about the condition of our parks; nine months later Mayor Francis and the $300,000 CAO Helga Reidel, delivered a bundle of failure and a handful of park closures. Late last year Gord Henderson, that “hard-hitting” columnist at the Windsor Star, assured us Francis [...]
Is there or is there not a mould problem at Huron Lodge? Mayor Eddie Francis stated before residents moved into the new facility, “we had reports of mould” (Chris Thompson, Windsor Star, May 27, 2013), yet the Windsor Star didn’t pursue this. And according to the City’s expert evidence, Mr. Martin Gerskup was “looking for the [...]
Fix the basics. Streamline government. Invest in the simple things. It’s the stuff election campaigns are made of. And anyone contemplating a run for the Mayor’s Office could turn to Anne Jarvis’ recent column as the beginnings of a platform. They could start by asking how much has been spent by all levels of government to “revitalize” downtown? [...]
After years of demanding the Ambassador Bridge Company meet with the City (and threatening to take action if they didn’t) to discuss their plans and “hammer out an agreement so the parties will live by their commitments,” (Doug Schmidt, The Windsor Star, December 4, 2009), Mayor Eddie Francis is now claiming he’ll only talk if the company “agrees [...]
Mr. Mayor and Members of Council: I am unable to attend the April 22, 2013 meeting of council; therefore I submit these thoughts for your consideration. The estimated $330,000 required to pursue phase two of this so-called audit that “does not constitute an audit in accordance with the Canadian Auditing Standards” nor provide “opinion, attestation [...]
According to Mayor Francis, the review of Enwin Utilities was nothing more than a “political witch-hunt“ claiming the review of board attendance, credit card usage, executive and board compensation, and dividends paid to the city, ““clearly shows” there is “nothing wrong” with Enwin’s operations” (Doug Schmidt, Windsor Star, April 15, 2013). It’s like saying because your car [...]
“This engagement does not constitute an audit in accordance with the Canadian Auditing Standards (generally accepted auditing standards) issued by the Auditing and Assurance Standards Boards of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. Accordingly we will provide no opinion, attestation or form of assurance with respect to our work or the information upon [...]
City council will be asked next Monday to approve spending more than $300,000 on phase two of the Enwin audit to conduct something that “does not constitute an audit” and will not “audit or otherwise verify the information supplied” to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). That’s according to the report of the phase one “review” of Enwin Utilities . But it [...]
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