There is much for our city council and bureaucrats to fix — before the next big protest rumbles into town.
Meanwhile that same police services board, whose job it is to keep the local constabulary on the straight and narrow, violated its own rules by meeting in secret and bypassing correct procedures in hiring a new interim chief after Peter Sloly vanished mid-protest.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
First, city leaders didn’t share essential information with the elected city council. “In turn, this hindered Councillors’ ability to communicate decisions concerning services/issues to ward residents,” Gougeon wrote. One example: the city offered up the baseball stadium parking lot to the police for overflow convoy parking but never told the ward councillor, who only found out about it from the media. Nearby residents were understandably bewildered.
Third, the city’s central emergency control group, which is supposed to stickhandle crises, only met once during the entire convoy presence. Its members were certainly talking to each other, but that made planning ad hoc. “Without having regular … meetings with documentation of key decisions made, there is no evidence that the group carried out its responsibilities,” the auditor concluded.
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