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Crowsnest Pass how to run a community more efficiently using your tax dollars
We pay for a mayor and council who it seems are incapable of
doing nothing but what they’re told... by the outside hired help? Needing their
hands held like no other mayor and council before them? Costing us an arm and a
leg in the process while they fumble about (I, by the way, as a full-time mayor
(not needing his hand held) would have come a whole lot cheaper... just saying.
J
And I certainly would have concentrated on growing our economy as my first
priority, rather than regulating it to death and thereby allowing it to slide
into the toilet).
First, we have a mayor who for two decades mismanages this
place so badly that for 10 years running (and counting) we are on the short
list of the twenty worst communities in all of Canada in having continual declining
populations. Now we have an educator in charge who obviously knows not what he
does and as a result needs costly ‘experts’ to tell him and his council what to
do. The way things are going, soon we will be the best managed little ‘ghost
town’ in all of Alberta .
Oh what a farce we have become all because as a community we
lack the ability to recognize what is needed is a ‘catalyst’ to turn things
around here. New bylaws, rules and regulations alone won’t do it, when what the
problem is, is we have an ineffective elite, a non-intellectual business elite
that doesn’t believe in the Pass. Until these people can be turned around by a
catalyst to see the wisdom in investing in their own community, how do you
expect to get the outside world to?
For over ten years now I have spoken out telling people what
needs to be done but nobody listens because the ‘suits’ here have everybody
brainwashed into believing what is needed is more professionals (experts) like
them, to (mis)manage things and tell them what to do. I have only one question to
ask the residents in this community with respect to this, and that is ‘how’s
that all been working out for you, so far???
JP
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
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censuses of population, 2001 and 2006
2006-5749
2001-6262
Dean Ward
2011-5565
Houston, we've got a problem.
In response to Anonymous 1:21
You are right you have a problem!
The problem is the people who let the shysters fool them at election time. Get all the fools on your side and you have it made. The same thing has happened here for forty years. Like you said: "They piss on us and they want us to believe that it is raining."
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
Money is being spent, money that the town does not have! First stop hiring goones whose focus is to micromanage residents lives. They have money for 2 new bylaw enforcement agents to make sure people are keeping their yards clean, but cannot afford Thunder in the Valley which actually brings in money! Revenue is needed so that the last remaining residents do not have to pay property tax that is even more outrageous than the current situation. Hiring town workers and buying equipment than is not even being used, spending a fortune to tear down buildings so the land can just sit there. Who in their right mind wants to buy in a dying town?!!! That being said, surely there is a strategic way to bring all this to light. JP you seem to have quite a following. Can you act like an unelected opposition leader and start a movement. I own property there, but live abroad, however I can do research or computer work! And btw if I hear one more time'we don't want this to be another Banff, I will lose it. Banff will be prosperous for the foreseeable future and people continue to dream of owning property there.
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Revenue is needed so that the last remaining residents do not have to pay property tax that is even more outrageous than the current situation.
I do not understand this sentence in the least. But, comments from another person who does not live here - but ABROAD - you can hear all you want, but you have to live here to get full story - not one hyped up by media or people with own agendas.
Anon @10:48
… surely there is a strategic way to bring all this to light. JP you seem to have quite a following. Can you act like an unelected opposition leader and start a movement.
Yes, I can. In fact, that is what I believe I have been doing since my council days. This blog is nothing more than a continuation of that fight, a movement to set things right here in the Pass. So far my movement, which I like to call the GAS (Give a Shit) party consists of three members: me, myself and I. There is opportunity for others to join but it seems “opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in coveralls and looks like work”.
Seriously, the only people who really give a shit about this community are the establishment types who have a vested interest in the place and who therefore run it for their sole benefit at the expense of everybody else, and as a result want to keep things pretty much as they are for them and their kind. And the outsiders, like you. People who see what is wrong with the place and want to change things for the better but find they get little to no support, and only ridicule from the local shepple who are blind to which side their bread is buttered.
If you have any ideas or a ‘strategic way’, as you put it, please share. Because most of us are at a loss as to what to do, aside from the obvious which is to organize and prepare for the next election to ensure we have an honest election and thereby the right people get in. People who have vision, courage and determination to turn this place into all it can be, by making sure the quality and standard of life is improved upon, and that opportunities are available to all residents, and not just the privileged few.
JP
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