There’s suggestions that a key City of Vernon document needs some editing. Council has received the draft 2012 annual report which details the city’s activities, including financial, for the previous year. “I have questions about the accuracy of some of it,” said Coun. Bob Spiers. “I found five or six factual errors and if we get the public looking at them, it could be embarrassing.” Among the items, Spiers says there is a wrong figure for the business to residential tax ratio and the number of sewer connections appears to have shrunk since 2011. He also says that Mayor Rob Sawatzky’s reference to taxation as part of total revenue does not align with another part of the report. “People will look at the mayor’s speech and compare figures,” said Spiers. Staff has stated it will review Spiers’ concerns and any required changes to the report will be made. Public input on the 2012 annual report will be received June 24 at city hall at 5 p.m. Copies of the report can be found at www.vernon.ca
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Don Quixote Note: All the factual errors have been corrected as requested. see 2012 Annual Report Schedule - 35 Kb. Actual annual report that will be the subject of Public input at 5 PM Monday June 24th (Agenda Index
) can be found at 2012 Draft Annual Report - 28.7 MB.------------
Annual meeting on report
99 (1) The council must annually consider, at a council meeting or other public meeting,
(a) the annual report prepared under section 98, and
(b) submissions and questions from the public.
(2) The annual meeting must occur at least 14 days after the annual report is made available for public inspection under section 97.
(3) The council must give notice of the date, time and place of the annual meeting in accordance with section 94 [public notice].
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