After sixteen years with an NDP MLA who did nothing for this riding, you would think voters would choose someone other than a mayor who has done nothing for the town. This is good news for the town but very unfortunate for the riding.
..... And Thanks also, Josie, for creating those new public sector jobs, and for your legacy of the biggest staff payroll ever seen in the Tofino District Office. Even if the taxpayers of Tofino don't appreciate you, at least your friends sure do.
Further to 9:10, it was stated recently that Tofino's CAO, with our district population of 1800, makes about $187,000, plus benefits annually, which is about what a senior cabinet minister earns in our provincial government, with a provincial population of 5,000,000. How does this add up!
I thought the number was about $165K, but it don't matter..... even at $165, that comes out to, during Osborne's terms as mayor, he put about $1.1 million in his pocket. Good work if you can get it. Crap like this needs to be publicized, bitched about, bought out into the light and exposed. People need to be educated about how they're being shafted and taken advantage of. And our mayor and council need to step up and look out for the interests of the taxpayers and residents of the village. This is a lot of money. The public's money. Money that could be better used to supply essential services that the people actually need, not "essential services" that the current "staff" claims we need. This guy ain't worth $165K or $187K or any other huge amount, just look at his mismanagement of the sewage facility estimates and his weak and flimsy excuses as to why he's over 30 million short. We could probably hire a group of high school kids to do just as well, probably better, for a heck of a lot less.
And it's not just this guy, there's a cabal of them in the district office, all scratching each others backs, all overpaid, all underperforming. All issuing long winded reports and explanations filled with pages and pages of gobbledegook designed to obfuse, confuse, disguise and hide the real facts of what's happening and where the money is going. All backing each other up and telling the voters what a great job the "team" is doing! And all walking away with fat paycheques with great benefits attached.
Don't forget that just 15 years ago, this entire office was run with the efforts of just two people.
This is the kind of stuff that deserves public scrutiny during the upcoming election campaigns.
Next up to the trough looks like will be the two or three people that will be hired to administer the proposed tree removal bylaw. Just what we need. As if we don't have enough things that we've screwed up already, now we need a new complicated tree removal bylaw so nobody can do anything without a tree removal permit and probably six months worth of biological studies, consultants, and a supervisor watching the tree removal. The people driving this boat don't understand that they should finish one thing before they start another and the last thing in the world we need is a tree removal bylaw unless we are obeying the dictates of people who love trees but don't own property and have to try to build with trees in the way.
10:07. From my recollection the office was run by two people up until 98 or 99. The town was about 1200 residents and organized effectively enough to do everything normally involved in running a small town as well as, perhaps ironically, taking on M&B, the whole provincial gov't, and the Labour Unions to boot. This current crew are useless. Council and staff! After considering a few housing units, they are waiting.....they are waiting for a gov't grant to find out/study how much water we have. For the last twenty years,, every few years Tofino has studied it's water system.
Now, WE don't know ???? Are you kidding me????
The public has been told for years there is no water for housing development. This year they just approved an 86 unit Catalyst rental proposal. No questions asked about water supply. No red flags raised. As well, 500 camp sites, hotel rooms and VR units have been created in the last few years. No red flags raised. No discussions Now they don't know how much water we have, and will study it. My Lord how stupid and ineffectual can they be?
They will work on a tree removal bylaw cause everyone has a strong opinion. Everyone has a favourite tree somewhere in town, and has a speech ready to defend it. They can all stand up one by one and announce "I am for trees" Then sit down confident and comfortable they have done their jobs. Stupid voters will eat it up and Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
How much water do we have? Shrug,"I don't know". "I guess we should find out."
Ya think!
But only if and when we get a grant to study it. There is about twenty of them currently running into each other at town hall, in all manner of departments, payed to be knowledgeable and expert, and no one knows if we have any reserve water capacity or how to find out. Let's hire a consultant.
The dumb thing is this: there is only so much water that can go through a pipe of any particular size. So really it's not rocket science to look at how much what water comes through a pipe in 24 hours given the pressure of the head of the body of water that supplies the pipe. We have two water systems/pipes that supply water to the town; akmosis and Sharp Creek. But the demand for water isn't consistent so the supply is off again on again whenever water is needed. It won't help to meter the input because of this off-again on again effect. Then there's the million gallon reservoirs that get filled up automatically if they ever start to drop. However it's easy enough for a kid with a calculator to figure out how much water comes through a pipe in an hour if the output is metered. Which it is. Then times 24 should give you the available water supply. for both water sources. The problem that occurred in 2005 when the town allegedly ran out of water was that there were no restrictions, after a month of no rain, and a basic disregard for water conservation. We were using water faster than it could be delivered therefor draining the tanks and eventually the 100,000 gallon fire reserve on Barrs Mountain. This could easily happen again now that nobody knows how much water is sane to be allowed to be used by everybody. It's insane. Josie? Answers? The district? How will we know that we've consumed too much water?
When there is no water running over the dams on Meares, everything the system can provide is going into the pipe and water levels are dropping in the Tofino reservoirs. The limits to the system are about How much can the drainage systems provide. In a dry summer it is not a matter of pipe size They have been measuring it and studying it for years. All of a sudden nobody knows shit. The problem in 2005 was there was no water coming over the damn. Everything available was being used. Yes conservation gave us a few more years, and we added Imaaksis (spelling?) but a few million tourists, even if they are conserving(which I doubt) can use up everything you just conserved
Madame Mayor! Madame Mayor!, I think we are going to run out of water"
"How do you know"? "Does it say so on Facebook" "Was it reported in the media" "What is Tough City radio saying"?
"There is nothing coming out of the tap........Madame Mayor
"Oh", "Well I have to go to Victoria now.... see you later.....Good luck with that water thingy."
Incapable of comprehending the damaged she created through her own ineptitude, she departs thinking she did something wonderful. (Eye roll). What a slap in the face. What one would expect of a player. Now Tofino's townfolk have been left holding the bag, left to discover and suffer what is known as the narcissist's "discard". Look it up.
It would be futile to lament or pine, however. People don't go out looking to be scammed. The right one finds them.
12:08 AM. Thanks for the insight. I believe that you're pretty much right on the money with your comments. It amazes me that so many people in this town are unable to see this side of her. I'd seen some of her self-serving manipulative ways of doing things long prior to her appointment as mayor, so I knew what to look for and could see the fox in the henhouse all along, but there's a huge segment of our population that still fail to realize that they've been used, abused, and screwed over to her advantage and gain, while the taxpayers and residents of Tofino get left with the bill for it all. Maybe 20 years from now, when they realize they're still paying off Josie's costs, they'll finally realize that they've been bamboozled.
ill bet josie is proud, very proud, to be part of a government of liars and cheats. a government - political party - who claims they are against logging old growth forests to soothe the environmentals yet are actively supporting logging old growth forests down island as fast as possible. why? to get the money from the stumpage rates. its all about the money and screw the people and their environment ideals.
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Ralph for mayor!
After sixteen years with an NDP MLA who did nothing for this riding, you would think voters would choose someone other than a mayor who has done nothing for the town. This is good news for the town but very unfortunate for the riding.
That's not fair! We got a ban on plastic straws, and a multi modal transportation plan that everyone ignores. And millions of dollars "poof!" gone!
Biggest tax increases in the history of Tofino...Thanks Josie
Tax increases only apply to those who are not “non-profits “
..... And Thanks also, Josie, for creating those new public sector jobs, and for your legacy of the biggest staff payroll ever seen in the Tofino District Office. Even if the taxpayers of Tofino don't appreciate you, at least your friends sure do.
Hope Horgan resists the urge to put her in charge of anything important
10:14 AM..... Amen.
Further to 9:10, it was stated recently that Tofino's CAO, with our district population of 1800, makes about $187,000, plus benefits annually, which is about what a senior cabinet minister earns in our provincial government, with a provincial population of 5,000,000. How does this add up!
I thought the number was about $165K, but it don't matter..... even at $165, that comes out to, during Osborne's terms as mayor, he put about $1.1 million in his pocket. Good work if you can get it. Crap like this needs to be publicized, bitched about, bought out into the light and exposed. People need to be educated about how they're being shafted and taken advantage of. And our mayor and council need to step up and look out for the interests of the taxpayers and residents of the village. This is a lot of money. The public's money. Money that could be better used to supply essential services that the people actually need, not "essential services" that the current "staff" claims we need. This guy ain't worth $165K or $187K or any other huge amount, just look at his mismanagement of the sewage facility estimates and his weak and flimsy excuses as to why he's over 30 million short. We could probably hire a group of high school kids to do just as well, probably better, for a heck of a lot less.
And it's not just this guy, there's a cabal of them in the district office, all scratching each others backs, all overpaid, all underperforming. All issuing long winded reports and explanations filled with pages and pages of gobbledegook designed to obfuse, confuse, disguise and hide the real facts of what's happening and where the money is going. All backing each other up and telling the voters what a great job the "team" is doing! And all walking away with fat paycheques with great benefits attached.
Don't forget that just 15 years ago, this entire office was run with the efforts of just two people.
This is the kind of stuff that deserves public scrutiny during the upcoming election campaigns.
Next up to the trough looks like will be the two or three people that will be hired to administer the proposed tree removal bylaw. Just what we need. As if we don't have enough things that we've screwed up already, now we need a new complicated tree removal bylaw so nobody can do anything without a tree removal permit and probably six months worth of biological studies, consultants, and a supervisor watching the tree removal.
The people driving this boat don't understand that they should finish one thing before they start another and the last thing in the world we need is a tree removal bylaw unless we are obeying the dictates of people who love trees but don't own property and have to try to build with trees in the way.
10:07. From my recollection the office was run by two people up until 98 or 99. The town was about 1200 residents and organized effectively enough to do everything normally involved in running a small town as well as, perhaps ironically, taking on M&B, the whole provincial gov't, and the Labour Unions to boot.
This current crew are useless. Council and staff! After considering a few housing units, they are waiting.....they are waiting for a gov't grant to find out/study how much water we have. For the last twenty years,, every few years Tofino has studied it's water system.
Now, WE don't know ???? Are you kidding me????
The public has been told for years there is no water for housing development. This year they just approved an 86 unit Catalyst rental proposal. No questions asked about water supply. No red flags raised. As well, 500 camp sites, hotel rooms and VR units have been created in the last few years. No red flags raised. No discussions
Now they don't know how much water we have, and will study it. My Lord how stupid and ineffectual can they be?
They will work on a tree removal bylaw cause everyone has a strong opinion. Everyone has a favourite tree somewhere in town, and has a speech ready to defend it. They can all stand up one by one and announce "I am for trees" Then sit down confident and comfortable they have done their jobs. Stupid voters will eat it up and Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
How much water do we have? Shrug,"I don't know". "I guess we should find out."
Ya think!
But only if and when we get a grant to study it. There is about twenty of them currently running into each other at town hall, in all manner of departments, payed to be knowledgeable and expert, and no one knows if we have any reserve water capacity or how to find out. Let's hire a consultant.
Waste of oxygen....Sack em all!!!!
The dumb thing is this: there is only so much water that can go through a pipe of any particular size. So really it's not rocket science to look at how much what water comes through a pipe in 24 hours given the pressure of the head of the body of water that supplies the pipe. We have two water systems/pipes that supply water to the town; akmosis and Sharp Creek. But the demand for water isn't consistent so the supply is off again on again whenever water is needed. It won't help to meter the input because of this off-again on again effect. Then there's the million gallon reservoirs that get filled up automatically if they ever start to drop. However it's easy enough for a kid with a calculator to figure out how much water comes through a pipe in an hour if the output is metered. Which it is. Then times 24 should give you the available water supply. for both water sources.
The problem that occurred in 2005 when the town allegedly ran out of water was that there were no restrictions, after a month of no rain, and a basic disregard for water conservation. We were using water faster than it could be delivered therefor draining the tanks and eventually the 100,000 gallon fire reserve on Barrs Mountain.
This could easily happen again now that nobody knows how much water is sane to be allowed to be used by everybody. It's insane. Josie? Answers? The district? How will we know that we've consumed too much water?
When there is no water running over the dams on Meares, everything the system can provide is going into the pipe and water levels are dropping in the Tofino reservoirs. The limits to the system are about How much can the drainage systems provide. In a dry summer it is not a matter of pipe size They have been measuring it and studying it for years. All of a sudden nobody knows shit. The problem in 2005 was there was no water coming over the damn. Everything available was being used. Yes conservation gave us a few more years, and we added Imaaksis (spelling?) but a few million tourists, even if they are conserving(which I doubt) can use up everything you just conserved
Madame Mayor! Madame Mayor!, I think we are going to run out of water"
"How do you know"? "Does it say so on Facebook" "Was it reported in the media" "What is Tough City radio saying"?
"There is nothing coming out of the tap........Madame Mayor
"Oh", "Well I have to go to Victoria now.... see you later.....Good luck with that water thingy."
CNN reports. Osbourne pulling ahead in Pennsylvania on basis of late arriving mail in voting.
Incapable of comprehending the damaged she created through her own ineptitude, she departs thinking she did something wonderful. (Eye roll). What a slap in the face. What one would expect of a player. Now Tofino's townfolk have been left holding the bag, left to discover and suffer what is known as the narcissist's "discard". Look it up.
It would be futile to lament or pine, however. People don't go out looking to be scammed. The right one finds them.
That Cheshire cat smile turned out to be deadly.
12:08 AM. Thanks for the insight. I believe that you're pretty much right on the money with your comments. It amazes me that so many people in this town are unable to see this side of her. I'd seen some of her self-serving manipulative ways of doing things long prior to her appointment as mayor, so I knew what to look for and could see the fox in the henhouse all along, but there's a huge segment of our population that still fail to realize that they've been used, abused, and screwed over to her advantage and gain, while the taxpayers and residents of Tofino get left with the bill for it all.
Maybe 20 years from now, when they realize they're still paying off Josie's costs, they'll finally realize that they've been bamboozled.
ill bet josie is proud, very proud, to be part of a government of liars and cheats.
a government - political party - who claims they are against logging old growth forests to soothe the environmentals yet are actively supporting logging old growth forests down island as fast as possible. why? to get the money from the stumpage rates. its all about the money and screw the people and their environment ideals.
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