Board Director not in the partying mood

Halton Hills - Acton: Board Director not in the partying mood ... not when the party is going to cost so much.

"My immediate reaction is that it seems like a significant amount of money for a celebration," he said. "Things like this make people in the community upset... It appears to be a $50,000 party."
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Conservation Halton just approved a $50,000 budget to celebrate the bureaucracy’s 50th anniversary next year, and Councillor Lewis from Halton Hills stood out and defended the taxpayers’ rights for more accountability from our public and/or tax funded committees.

Members of the Halton Herald have been calling the Conservation Halton the Proverbial Cash Cow for sometime now.

Time for the Region of Halton to appoint a Regional Audit Commission made up of Citizens to Review Conservation Halton and report back to the public and the Region of Halton on there findings.
Being a Top 100 Employers in Canada in 2004 Conservation Halton Board of Directors should not have a problem with this citizens request. Click here for more.

According to our forums, nobody can understand where $3,387,946.00 in Municipal funding is spent. Well, now we know where $50,000 of next years operating and capital budget of an anticipated approximate $15 million is going to be going.

Conservation Halton Board Member, Councillor Lewis, isn't the only one that’s questioning the spending practices of CH's board. Perhaps that day is to him, what it is to most in the working world - just another one of those 147 days a year that many of us have to work in order to pay our taxes.

Is it possible CH board vice-chair John Vice and many of the other board members who voted for the grand celebration have forgotten, the bureaucracy is an innate proverbial Cash Cow that couldn't possibly benefit from being animated through the celebration of its birth, not when its entire existence is more directly linked to its budget day.

Too bad none of the other board members, except Lewis, aren't asking themselves; will Conservation Halton's feelings really be hurt if the funds for its birthday party are re-allocated and put towards its conservation efforts?

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