http://www.calgarysun.com/news/colum.../12938981.html
Framed around the famed (or infamous) new bridge, is some pretty shocking and alarming accusations from the City's Auditor
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Tracy McTaggart, the city’s auditor, is putting the final touches on a probe of city contracts, including the $25 million Calatrava designer bridge
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But we, the people, don’t get to see Tracy’s work for three more months.
Three more months, despite the fact Tracy says what she’s seeing in her inspection of the facts “is consistent with having an absence of rules” and she believes, at the city, “there is a need to get everybody playing by the same rules.”
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That’s not all. When Tracy and her team started looking at city spending on goods and services, she didn’t find rules as we understand them and considered this to be “very surprising” and “very unusual.”
Now, she’s going through the goings-on across city departments, including the bridge deal, and it’s not pretty.
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Personally, I'd think that a city as big as Calgary should have some pretty tight spending rules. I don't agree that the lowest price is always the best choice, as you usually get what you paid for, but there should be a pretty open and transparent process.
Should I be surprised that it sounds like this isn't the case?