Rick Di Lorenzo wrote:
Ok I'll try asking this again....
Why do you go around telling people the Toronto Star did a story one day after the council meeting? When you know the story was from March. I think you do these things because it makes your story sound better. The thing is you do it so often that it makes it difficult for me to trust what you say. I have to try and fact check every sentence you say or write.
Rick Malboeuf wrote:
It is irresponsible to only rely on the information provided to us by the service provider.
What about the information provided to us by our own finance department saying that yes, they are receiving increased money from transit fares.
Rick you can go back to the video recording and listen to Colin's answers, my responces (which I admit, were limited), mayor's responces, etc.
I wish you would spend a quarter of the time you spend looking for ways to reduce transit on actually trying to support Milton Transit and it's riders. We've had how many Milton Transit Passenger Appreciation days in the past 4 years? 4 of them I think? And you attended how many exactly? Zero? 1? I think zero? And your one of the 2 councillors who sits on Transit? Four years ago I made the mistake of believing you when you said you wanted to be on Milton Transit in order to improve it. I was thinking you'd be looking for ways to make it more efficient and improve the cost recovery ratios.
Rick
You talk about increasing revenues from the fare box in your responce(sic) but as a businessman I am sure you are aware that is only part of the issue. What you perhaps should be talking about, in my humble opinion, is how much of that increased revenue came from the recently increased service, and at what incremental costs? How many more taxpayer $$$ were spent in achieving those additional revenues?
I for one am glad you made the ":mistake" of believing that Rick M wanted to improve the cost recovery ratios. I prefer his stance to that of a "yes man". Although in this case ironically it appears that Rick M is the yes man following the recommendations of the staff member accountable for Transit.
Isn't relying on the service providers numbers year after year without independent audit somewhat like leaving the fox in charge of the henhouse? The audit of public companies on an annual basis is a huge expense to those companies but I doubt if you would get too many investors clamouring to drop the annual audit.
I find it strange that organisations that are prepared to "invest" in 3rd parties to develop strategic plans are not prepared to invest in audits to ensure that the results of those plans are measured accurately - but then it's an election year!
Martin