Last Thursday afternoon, city top bureaucrat Richard Butts abruptly announced a re-shuffling and downsizing of city staff, resulting in five middle managers immediately losing their jobs. Reportedly, the five were escorted out of their offices, lest they take home paper clips or trade secrets. The five laid off employees are: Andrew Whittemore, manager of community […]
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Who at City Hall knew what when?
[image-1] There are lots of questions in the concert loan scandal that remain unanswered. Here are three: Who in City Hall knew of the abysmally low ticket sales numbers for the Common concerts, When did they know it, and Why, with that knowledge in hand, did they keep booking shows on the Common? Some background: Scott Ferguson, president at Trade Centre Limited, tells me that he fully informed city officials about ticket sales figures for all the Common concerts. I believe him. But here’s the city’s policy on concerts, as adopted by council on March 6, 2007 (pg. 7): [image-2]