The Editor,
The latest wind storm caused extensive damage and cost a lot to the city, with the bulk of the money being spent on labour. Given the possibility of a major earthquake, which would call for extensive work from both public and civic people, would pubic service employees be compensated for the work at a pay rate which is in their contract? Or would they be required to do work as civic volunteers?
Why is it that when minor clean ups take place at Como Lake there are as many flag persons on site as workers doing actual maintenance yet, after the latest storm, not a person was in sight to direct the traffic at major intersections where traffic lights were out?
Is there a set of expectations as to what amount of work should be done in a day by city employees? For example, last year at Montgomery middle, where pipes were laid on the street, the daily distance of pipe laid could not match the distance that a gardening snail can travel in a day.
Ignac Fodor
Coquitlam
