Please keep following this Neil. If the city is giving priority to Lansdowne 2.1 and infrastructure for projects like Tewin over transit fares for seniors and students, this needs to be in the public domain. Seniors effectively paying for the Lansdowne debacle indeed. Thanks for your work.
City of Ottawa budgets, studies, charts & graphs, reports and decisions all fail to provide the raw input data, how they were processed, what decisions were made (and their justification) and how they are "rolled up/summarized" to what is presented to Councillors and the public. That they combine multiple projects into their "design" line item in the budget is classic.
That Councils continue to permit this lack of tranpsparency is damning.
Well said. It is a fair statement to say that Ottawa city budgets are written to be not particularly useful for anyone to understand where the money is going.
Please keep following this Neil. If the city is giving priority to Lansdowne 2.1 and infrastructure for projects like Tewin over transit fares for seniors and students, this needs to be in the public domain. Seniors effectively paying for the Lansdowne debacle indeed. Thanks for your work.
I really appreciate you delving into the Budget, uncovering buried references, and highlighting this kind of non-transparency.
Excellent, and very informative. The budget smoke and mirrors (around Landsdowne 2.0) is especially appalling. thanks for great sleuthing.
City of Ottawa budgets, studies, charts & graphs, reports and decisions all fail to provide the raw input data, how they were processed, what decisions were made (and their justification) and how they are "rolled up/summarized" to what is presented to Councillors and the public. That they combine multiple projects into their "design" line item in the budget is classic.
That Councils continue to permit this lack of tranpsparency is damning.
Well said. It is a fair statement to say that Ottawa city budgets are written to be not particularly useful for anyone to understand where the money is going.