At a Metro Vancouver board meeting Friday morning, it was announced that staff went to New Orleans in October for the Water Environment Federation's Technical Exhibition.
After Global News filed freedom of information requests about travel by Metro Vancouver staff, the CAO 'discloses' that twelve staff recently travelled to New Orleans, along with informing the board about other questionable spending. Catherine Urquhart and Jordan Armstrong report. Metro Vancouver
board meeting Friday morning, it was announced that staff went to New Orleans in October for the Water Environment Federation’s Technical Exhibition or WEFTEC.“I wanted to flag it for the board because it was a large number of staff that attended, it was 12 staff attended,” Chief Administrative Officer Jerry Dobrovolny said.For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.
That trip was news to Metro Vancouver’s chair, who apparently, was left in the dark about the junket. “I found out about it, I was told that there was a request that came in for information, and that’s how and when I found out,” Chair Mike Hurley told Global News.And, as the deadline looms for another FOI request, Metro Vancouver admitted to huge spending for a display at the PNE this year.More questions about Metro Vancouver’s spending
“The cost of the PNE is in the order of $580,000, as I said, for 90,000 coming through it’s actually quite efficient for the cost per person,” he said.Metro Vancouver denies receiving any concert tickets from the PNE.Spending at Metro Vancouver is facing increased scrutiny amid concerns the North Shore Wastewater treatment plant is approximately $3 billion over budget.Marc Miller tells Pierre Poilievre to ‘grow a pair’ in heated exchangeTrudeau pledges $7M to expand school food program in P.E.I.
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