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Pageà2, Whîtby Free Press, Wednegday, November 2,1994 con-in ued -omepe ve es p -g On government management: On4 In public companies, the shareholders elect a board of directors which appoints the T management team which hires the staff and manages the company. Ultimately is to rE everybody is responsible to the shareholders. consti If the shareholders don't think the company is providing the best possible return on A their investment, they can force a shareholders meeting and elect a new board. style r Municipal government should be run the same way - you are the shareholders and arranc you elect the council (board of directors). Your taxes are your investment. the W Most members of council have no business management experience and certainly bulleti would never get elected to the board of a multi-million dollar company. They exercise only peripheral control over senior staff. aIl situ This election is your opportunity to choose a new board of directors. Whitb On bylaws and bylaw enforcement: Eve 7new bylaw needs to pass three tests: 1) w it accomplish the goal that it sets out to, 2) is it the best way to achieve that goal and, 3) is it enforceable at a cost which is reasonable? Having passed a by-law it must be enforced or else the effort has been wasted and the level of public cynicism just goes up another notch. Every bylaw should be reviewed every few years against the same three initial criteria along with a fourth one - Is it still necessary? Whitby has hundreds of by-laws which it never enforces and many more that are acted on only in the case of complaints. Most of them should be repealed, or amended to make them work. citizen participation: he fundamental role of a politician in a democracy -present the majority consensus of his tuents. He must be available on a consistent basis. s a regional councillor, I will hold periodic town hall meetings in all parts of the community, I wiII ge focus groups, and I will conduct surveys through hitby Free Press, by telephone and via computer n boards. will offer my opinions, ideas and leadership but in uations, I will Vote the wishes of the people of y. On recail: I believe that all politicians at all levels are elected for the sole purpose of implementing the collective will of the majority. Every elected representive should be recallable by a petitioning process which would iead to a. by-election. The constant threat of recall would ensure that politicians could no longer ignore their contituents. On the hospital: On Lynde Marsh: This is not directly a municipal issue but it I consider myself an environmentalist. Some areas must be protected and Lynde Marsh is is one on which the municipality could show a one of them. great deal more leadership than it has. The Lynde Marsh plan is an example where vested interests have supplanted rational 1 worked at Whitby General Hospital for environmental concerns. The province and the region both own large parcels of land in the area fifteen years so 1 know it inside out - 1 know which they want to cash in. Rose Corporation is not the villain - they just happen to ownthe where the skeletons are toof right piece of land. . The problems at Whitby General are not Lynde Marsh is by no means a pristine, undisturbed wilderness - it lies within a hundred new - they are the result of political interference yards of Canada's largest highway and is still prospering. Development on its doorstep can and bad decisions from the day that former probably be achieved with little impact but there is no return if the Bird & Hale report proves Health Minister Mlatt Dymond decided itshould wrong. Personally, I think the residents of the area will fare worse than the animals. Marshes be built on the grounds of the psychiatric are full of mosquitos and I pity the people who buy the homes. hospital instead of in the north end of town This development may have gone too far to stop it short of a very nasty and expensive fight where Dr. Ruddy wanted it built. in which lawyers make most of the money. In the end, though, if a majority feels that Lynde Whitby needs an acute care facility, the Marsh is worth the dollars necessary to preseve it as a sanctuary, then the politicians have no region needs a convalescent care centre and choice but to do what their constituents want. nobody is looking for the middle ground. What If the Lynde Marsh Plan goes ahead,-then there must be an iron-clad commitment to the we need is a little more talking and a lot less management plan with adequate enforcement. All too often, Whitby has passed high sounding shouting. bylaws but nothing has been done to ensure that they are carried out. On R.O.A.D.: On volunteers: R.O.A.D. stands for Representation, Openness, Accountability The more governments do, the more it costs and the higher your and Democracy. taxes are. The more you do, as citizens, the less government costs. R.O.A.D. was intended to identify and unite a group of like-minded Block Parents, Neighbourhood Watch, Community Care, Good candidates in a common front to ensure that the next council is Neighbours and all of Whitby's service clubs are initiatives that lower different from the last. the cost of government and improve the quality of life in our community. Although-there are numerous candidates whose platforms include Their contribution is at least as great as that of government , yet far these fundamental elements of democracy, most have chosen not to too often governments are working against them, duplicating their efforts identify themselves with R.O.A.D. or to have R.O.A.D. identify them. or simply ignoring them. It is left to the voters to determine for themselves which Governments should assist, facilitate, encourage and enhance the candidates advocate the kind of government they want and to get out efforts of all volunteers and recognize the tremendous contribution they on election day and vote for them. make. epresentative DOUGountabe REGIONAL COUNCIL iuthorized by the CFO for the Doug Anderson campaign ""The role of the citizen is to * become involved ...to provide the feedbuck thut mokes democrucy work. Votinq on Nov. 14 is the first and most important step""'