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Ladner, Sullivan and Owen’s management of Property Endowment Fund suspect

January 22, 2010 - 11:41 am | 0 Comments Posted by Jonathan Ross

Some former NPA affiliated staffers are running extremely low in the memory department.

So, a Freedom of Information request filed by City Caucus’ Daniel Fontaine has discovered that the Property Endowment Fund (PEF) board did not meet during the calendar year of 2009.

Without the time nor the inclination to find out the frequency of meetings in previous council years, however, the magic of the Internet has turned up some interesting facts about the reign over the PEF by former NPA Mayors/mayoral candidates.

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Ooops…I sent out the form email template too early!

January 8, 2010 - 10:16 am | 0 Comments Posted by Jonathan Ross

I made a boo boo. I took Bowser to get his pedicure, grabbed a latte, and then sent the email from my new blackberry. But then, I like totally forgot what date it was.

This is the kind of tripe that is flooding City Hall at the moment:

From: _______ ______ [mailto:______@_____.__]
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 8:06 PM
To: Correspondence Group, City Clerk’s Office
Subject: Homeless Shelters on Howe and Granville Streets

Dear Mayor and Councilors,

I am really concerned about your lack of consultation with the residents who live near the re-opened homeless shelters on Howe and Granville Streets.

You promised that you would not re-open these shelters without consultation. However to-day they re-opened and there was NO consultation.

I live diagonally opposite these centres. This evening just before 6 p.m. I went out the side door of my condo and observed a street person dismount from his bicycle and start to urinate on our property. I asked him to stop and he just turned to me and kept on urinating. I again asked him to stop and he said something rudely about there not being any washrooms nearby. (There is one is one just across the street on the sea wall and another on the corner of Davie and Richards St.) He then climbed on his bike and I watched him ride down to the re-opened homeless shelters.

And you wonder why we the residents of this area are concerned !!!

_______ ______

Apt # ___,

___ _______ _____,

Vancouver,

___ ___

(___) ___-____

Now, there is nothing wrong with this resident’s complaints of course…except for the fact that on the day that this was sent, the shelter had not even opened up yet.

If the NIMBY residents are going to launch a campaign against the bad behaviour of those staying at the shelter, so be it.  But maybe they should actually wait for things to go wrong before making up stories that clearly have no basis in reality.

Sat Jul 31, 2010

FACT OF THE DAY

Vancouver’s West End is 204 hectares and is home to 44,000 people (as at 2006) and has increased 5.8% in the previous 5 years and 66% moved since the last census.  61% speak English as their mother tongue.  The majority are in the 20-39 year old age group.  59% are one person households, with 8,710 families and an average household inome of $38,000.  There is a total of over 28,000 private households.

Quote OF THE DAY

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