Look up, waay up..1 little chair for one of you, and a bigger chair for 2 more to curl up in, and for someone who likes to rock, a rocking chair in the middle
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HomelessCalgary retweeted
I'll post the relevant clips from today's Council meeting tomorrow, when they become available.
HomelessCalgary retweeted
""From my heart of hearts...blah blah, blah" - DD at presentation of report findings 01/26
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HomelessCalgary retweeted
Which is why we need a technically qualified Water Utility Oversight Board to advise council, and why IMO Thompson's days should be numbered.
The two Bearspaw failures cost taxpayers ~$125 million +
and all that happened to Thompson was that he got a promotion from @duckworth17
HomelessCalgary retweeted
I watched that and what it confirmed to me was that Thompson wasn't qualified to answer the Q (the widespread false assumption was that the failed pipes last 100 years - widely known as untrue in industry
and you were unqualified to discern when you were getting played or mislead
HomelessCalgary retweeted
You then followed up with questions of Thompson where he confirmed you met with him in private over your concerns over the health of the water system, and got him to acknowledge everything was fine, no concerns.
This was supposed to be a rebuke to the Mayor, I assume.
HomelessCalgary retweeted
@JenniferWyness in today's Committee meeting, after mayor @JeromyYYC asked about accountability of Acting COO Michael Thompson, PEng, Thompson provided a masterful but still a lengthy dodge of the question-claiming that this whole past year has been one of accountability.Bahaha
HomelessCalgary retweeted
With the number of changes currently in Admin:
*hiring of new CAO underway
*recent retirement of Acting COO last Friday
*Members of Water Utility Oversight Board announced
*domino effect throughout org
this will take some time to resolve
Future tweaking of budgets expected
HomelessCalgary retweeted
N.B. There was one Committee meeting where, in response to questions from other Councillors, at least 2 maybe 3 times he responded to them as "Councillor Keating" before correcting himself.
It became a bit of a joke.
HomelessCalgary retweeted
Does she have some sort of special connection with the Acting COO of Water that is at risk of being severely altered?
Reminiscent of when as former GM of Transportation he charmed the Council head of the Green Line (before a GL Board was formed) Shane Keating.
Not good.
HomelessCalgary retweeted
HomelessCalgary retweeted
Compare with the extensive relevant experience of the WUOB members.
newsroom.calgary.ca/council-…
HomelessCalgary retweeted
I can't speak for the rest of the 1.6 million Calgarians,but Councillor @JenniferWyness plans to scrap the recently announced Water Utility Board does not instill confidence.
What in her @cityofcalgary
profile indicates any special knowledge in water resource management?
Cuckoo
HomelessCalgary retweeted
And is someone asking CAO candidates how they would go about this in the recently completed long list interviews, as they would lead whatever implementation was required?
HomelessCalgary retweeted
I thought council following the lead of @DanWMcLean was spending $7 million on zero based budgeting for a number of depts. I think Ernst and Young were leading the studies.
How does that fit with your chop-chop plans this go around?
HomelessCalgary retweeted
One person is in hospital after falling into an excavation pit at the construction site for Calgary’s Bearspaw South Water Feeder Main replacement project calgary.citynews.ca/2026/10/…
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NEW: City of Calgary has announced the other members of the city's Water Utility Oversight Board, led by former EPCOR executive Stephen Stanley.
HomelessCalgary retweeted
Woohoo! Long overdue.
Calgary Herald calgaryherald.com/news/long-… via @calgaryherald
HomelessCalgary retweeted
Don't believe me? Ask the City's Chief Engineer what he was doing in 2024.
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HomelessCalgary retweeted
This is political cheerleading and doesn't reflect reality.
What do you suppose Admin/ Engineering was doing for 16 months prior to the start of construction?
How about picking route & detailed design, and working with contractors.
They didn't start Dec 30th after 2nd failure
