Office expense report delayedCouncil talks about being nimble, but new rules for office budgets were due last month |
It was most amusing to hear our would-be strong mayor and his minions echoing the mantra at council earlier this week that they and their officials must be "nimble(r)" when it comes to luring new business investment to Toronto.
Frankly at Socialist Silly Hall -- where foot-dragging is the norm rather than the exception -- there are dozens of issues and programs which could use a far nimbler response, in my humble opinion.
Still, I found all their talk about acting in "rapid time" (cheap as it was) especially ironic given the fact that just minutes earlier Coun. Doug Holyday had been rather nimbly cut off by Her Royal Speakerness, Sandra Bussin, for daring to ask when we might see a long-delayed report containing new rules for how councillors can use their $53,100 office budgets.
Holyday -- who along with colleague Rob Ford was subjected to a petty review last year (with Mayor David Miller's blessing) for spending too little of his office budget -- had every reason to ask. The review was ordered last Dec. 12 and the report containing the new rules was due out last month.
But it was like the frugal councillor set off a time bomb when he suggested if councillors don't act in a more timely manner (to clean up their expense policy) they could find themselves in the same hot water as trustees at the Toronto Catholic District School Board -- slammed just weeks ago by a provincially-ordered investigator for countless expense account abuses.
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