Reader Response Forum
21/11/2009 03:45
Citizens Had Better Watch Where They Park
After running our story yesterday about the Wannabe Cop ticketing a truck in my driveway, the possible reason for such actions is beginning to emerge.
You see folks, city administration, carrying on with its misguided management thinking, hired a couple of extra bylaw officers this year.
And council in its infinite wisdom went along with the dastardly little scheme. The idea being that apparently administration convinced council the extra fines the two extra officers would generate, would more than cover the cost of the hiring.
Whoops, not so it would seem.
At a recent budget review meeting it was discovered that these two extra bodies not only were not producing the desired target fine figures, they weren’t even covering their own extra costs.
Now any properly run municipality would do the obvious and curtail the program and call it a failed experiment, but does city council do the right thing?
Of course they don’t.
Instead they ask administration to order a crackdown on an already overtaxed electorate and it is now thought the newly enhanced bylaw team is out in force preying on the residents of St. Albert for the tiniest of infractions in a desperate bid to raise funds to save face for an administration run amok.
So folks, you had better mind your Ps and Qs while out there in your neighbourhoods these days. Robbing Hood And His Merry Band Of Men want to reach deeper into your pocketbooks to have you pay for their mistakes. That’s right, if you are out in your neighbourhood loading leaves or whatever at 9:00 a.m. on a weekday morning, be sure you don’t have a wheel on a sidewalk, or you too will be slapped with a $60.00 fine. Unless of course you are a city photo radar officer who can park where they damn well please, destroying plants and making muddy ruts. Yep, that’s just fine and dandy because it too lines the pockets of the city.
It is a shameful and despicable situation when the real solution is to simply lay off the two extra officers and leave the tax burdened citizens of St. Albert the hell alone.
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