Famous Windsor Quotations

It's time to record for posterity some great comments made in Windsor recently.

The first is from Ward 2 Councillor Ron Jones just days after the Operating Budget was passed by Council:

"We look good at budget time ... but now we're paying for it," said Jones.

This comment was made in light of areas in his Ward looking like "a "disaster area" as a result of the mountains of curbside waste left behind following this year's exodus of university students."

I guess this must be a new problem that was never known before in the Ward. Hardly. Congratulations to the Ward 2 Councillors for ensuring that we have a premier but delayed East end arena for which we can find money but "There's an expectation we provide this service, but there's no budget for it," said McConnell, the city's manager of environmental services.

Another hilarious entry is from the Editorial writers at the Star. We have just been informed that Council spends almost as much time in camera as they do in public. After a relatively tame slam at the Mayor and Council, the Editorial concludes:

"That said, the city deserves credit for producing these sunshine reports on the number and nature of their closed door meetings. It provides the media ammunition, but it also provides taxpayers a quarterly snapshot and measure of accountability. The practice should be emulated by all Essex County municipalities."

Yes congratulations to Council for wanting to have bi-weekly meetings, for having agendas over the past few weeks that are laughable, for not producing records to citizens that other municipalities offer up freely thereby requiring Municipal Freedom of Information applications, for springing agenda items on the public such that no one knows about them so cannot appear as a delegation.

Oh what the heck, only 2 or 3 people out of 200,000 care.