{"id":20555,"date":"2018-05-02T15:51:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T19:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=20555"},"modified":"2018-05-02T15:51:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T19:51:01","slug":"an-open-letter-to-mayor-council-on-joc-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/an-open-letter-to-mayor-council-on-joc-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"An open letter to Mayor &#038; Council on JOC costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you learned from this that project management and keeping the eye on the ball failed, big deal!<br \/>\nThe Mayor and Council have done a poor job here and, for accountability purposes, someone should stand up and be accountable for our Town money. Guess what? No one has!<br \/>\nTypical of politicians \u2013 no accountability!<br \/>\nThe Joint Operations Centre over budget by $2.2M due to PMO mismanagement and lack of policy?<br \/>\nSomeone has to be accountable; that would be the lesson learned!<br \/>\nThe Mayor and which members of Council would like to pay for this, or the mayor who is the captain of the ship?<br \/>\nThink about it: it was a waste of property taxes by 440 houses, assuming $5,000 average annual tax bill.<br \/>\nCheers, and hoping we change Council up next election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen &#038; Linda Braceland<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you learned from this that project management and keeping the eye on the ball failed, big deal! The Mayor and Council have done a poor job here and, for accountability purposes, someone should stand up and be accountable for our Town money. Guess what? No one has! Typical of politicians \u2013 no accountability! The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}