City staff provide input
A service review examining the City of Powell River’s services and operations will be released to the public after both management and union representatives have provided feedback to the author of the report.
The city received $75,000 from the provincial government for the review. It contracted the Helios Group last year and the process began in July with interviews. Council has seen a confidential draft of the service review, which Mayor Dave Formosa said is an in-camera document. “It was a raw document, names, fingers pointed, et cetera, good areas, bad areas, work on, change, whatever,” he said. “From there, it was names removed.” Council then shared that document with management, Formosa explained.
Stan Westby, the city’s chief administrative officer, said the city’s management group met on January 4 for several hours and met again last week to finalize input to the author of the document.
Formosa said the management group had a discussion with the author and will submit comments to him. “It’s up to the author, whether he accepts them or not, not us,” he said. “We are going to give the same courtesy to the union...They will get their opportunity, as working people that actually do the job, to give their comments to the author. Then it’s between them and the author.”
Once that process is completed, there will be a final document that will be released to the public.
Formosa said the document was not “being massaged.” He said the input was to ensure “accuracy of information.”
