The more I think about Vancouver’s byelection lines, the more I think it’s a perfect example of how municipal staff fail.
They tripled the budget for planning, talked about how great they were for doing all sorts of fancy extra initiatives.
And mostly ignored the main thing voters rely on.
They tripled the budget for planning, talked about how great they were for doing all sorts of fancy extra initiatives.
And mostly ignored the main thing voters rely on.
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Arguably the one area elected officials would actually be better experts than staff would be on elections? 🤷🏽
It doesn’t give them an exciting thing to plan, or a reason to ask council for more money, or a initiative they can trumpet about how consultative and innovative and cutting edge they are.
And then cities wonder why citizens grumble.
The city admitted staff were so focused on the logistics of a perfectly planned concrete path as a detour, when gravel would probably do in the short-term.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-seawall-closure-science-world-olympic-village-1.7495720
And how can infrastructure go from "good for at least 3 more years" to "must be shut immediately"?
Oversight failure.
A lot of their original campaign was efficiency and focusing on core services, but there isn't anything to show for that so far.
Increasing the VPD budget and hiring 100 cops hasn't improved things, they couldn't follow through on 100 nurses, and then their solution was "one more cop, bro" for a council seat.
Do. Good. Things!