Jeromy Farkas has released an open letter to supporters of both Jeff Davison and Brad Field, urging them to vote for him in order to defeat Jyoti Gondek
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A new city report in response to an inquiry filed by Coun. Sean Chu and Coun. Jeromy Farkas shows that over the last four years, the city has paid out an average total of $30.1 million in overtime. Last year was below the average, at $28.9 million. Additionally, the four-year average for overtime payments to Calgary Police Service employees came to $13.6 million.
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City chief financial officer Carla Male wrote that overtime payments were down 11 per cent in 2020 compared to 2019, and there were also fewer employees getting those payments. The total annual payments to city and police employees add up to a little more than two per cent of salary expenditures and just one per cent of annual city costs.
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A new city report in response to an inquiry filed by Coun. Sean Chu and Coun. Jeromy Farkas shows that over the last four years, the city has paid out an average total of $30.1 million in overtime. Last year was below the average, at $28.9 million. Additionally, the four-year average for overtime payments to Calgary Police Service employees came to $13.6 million.
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City chief financial officer Carla Male wrote that overtime payments were down 11 per cent in 2020 compared to 2019, and there were also fewer employees getting those payments. The total annual payments to city and police employees add up to a little more than two per cent of salary expenditures and just one per cent of annual city costs.
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A 7-5 vote at committee approved the guide as a “best practices” reference for local area plans that the city will create with neighbourhoods.
“It will be used as the basis of future engagement when people are ready to do local area plans, which was always its intent anyway,” Nenshi explained Thursday.
“So, I said, why don’t we just do that instead of confusing this in so much process?”
The mayor and others suggested council made a mistake by getting so involved in the discussion about the guide, and it should have stayed with city bureaucrats all along, rather than getting wrapped up in a political discussion.
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A 7-5 vote at committee approved the guide as a “best practices” reference for local area plans that the city will create with neighbourhoods.
“It will be used as the basis of future engagement when people are ready to do local area plans, which was always its intent anyway,” Nenshi explained Thursday.
“So, I said, why don’t we just do that instead of confusing this in so much process?”
The mayor and others suggested council made a mistake by getting so involved in the discussion about the guide, and it should have stayed with city bureaucrats all along, rather than getting wrapped up in a political discussion.