Money grows on trees in Saanich?
Group questions $580,000 severance package for former Saanich CAO, Times Colinist, Dec. 28, 2021. FOI request: CAO eligible for $579,760 in severance While accolades may be deserved for its award-winning…
Code of conduct a sign of hope
Nothing gets the blood boiling more than having our electoral faith broken by misbehaving councillors or regional directors. What do Sooke taxpayers do when a councillor has missed 30 per…
Ask Santa for a critical response exercise !
Is Greater Victoria ready for a catastrophic event? BY GEORGE BARNHART, BOARD MEMBER, GRUMPY TAXPAYER$ If Santa is still making a list, we hope he checks it twice and adds…
Many questions about city budget
A free-spending and weary city council is proposing an over-ambitious $361.8 Million consolidated budget in the last year of their term. Rather than ‘setting the table for the future’, as…
Bumpy city roads neglected
27 per cent of major roads in poor or fair condition, 34 per cent of local roads in poor or fair condition Council should allocate more funds in the proposed…
Is Victoria council drinking Kool-Aid?
A reconciliation tax quickly escalates to millions annually, proposal must go to fall 2022 referendum It won’t take long before the city’s proposed reconciliation tax for Songhees and Esquimalt First…
Is a bigger View Royal council better?
EDITOR’S NOTE: In the Times Colonist story (Nov. 5, 2021) ‘View Royal Council could add two seats“, it’s reported following public push back an expansion of council was rejected in…
Isitt lights up local politics
Like him or not, there’s no denying that Victoria Coun. Ben Isitt involves residents, stirs passions and sparks heated discussion on municipal issues. The latest dust-up is around a video…
Absentee councillors should resign
Two chronically absent Sooke councillors should resign The absentee rate of 30 per cent for Coun. Ebony Logins and 24 per cent for Coun. Megan McMath, appears to be another…