Moose Jaw Forum

Sledge wrote:True "zephyrn" the building is here and it needs to be supported, but if we had some fiscally smart, responsible people at City Hall and in the MOB that would be more conscientious about how they spend our Tax Dollars I think the fiscal pain for taxpayers could be minimized. Combine that with some honesty and transparency toward the information provided to the taxpayer, in all areas of this mess, and many people would feel much better about the project; I know I would! The backroom wheeling and dealings, misinformation, secret meetings, with no public input has continually been a big issue with this "money pit" and it continues to follow the same course!! A change would be really nice and might eliminate or maybe minimize the ongoing distaste, by some, toward the project!

In some ways the board did a good job - not spending their entire operating budget, not hiring as many people as they had initially planned as they were not needed and bringing in $200,000 more than budgetted.
With that said however they threw all of their good work into the manure pile by coming out and in their sense of entitlement - they did not have their records ready as all other civic departments and third party boards did, they failed to answer not only questions from the general public but council as well in a timely fashion, they attacked questioners as adversaries no matter how innocuous the question and they even held secret meetings for a time that I think is outside of the parameters of their civic mandate.
And to top it all off they dictated where any surplus from the operating subsidy should go at a time when the city is struggling financially.
PR wise their actions in the end meant they flunked the class.