11-10-2018, 01:23 AM
(11-10-2018, 01:05 AM)Spokes Wrote:Quote:Kitchener is more than tripling the number of bylaw officers it will have patrolling the city's streets this winter to make sure sidewalks are shovelled.
At a cost of $170,000 a year, the city is hiring four contract bylaw officers, who will fan out across the city from November to April, on the lookout for snow-choked sidewalks.
Funnily enough, "tripling" suggests they had one before...they had zero patrolling. Now they'll have...presumably not zero, but also probably not 4, given that some of them will still have to respond to complaints instead of patrolling.
Of course, I'm just being pedantic about the meaning of the word patrol.
FWIW, the snow pilot that was cancelled I believe would only have cost 250k over two winters (plus 500k for a machine that we need to purchase anyway),....so this grand gesture to save the city money has saved us.... -90k over two winters. And results in us knowing absolutely nothing about the effectiveness of our public spending.
I hate certain members of city council with a passion.