Renée Amilcar, OC Transpo's general manager of transit services, photographed at a City of Ottawa transit committee meeting on June 29, 2023.
Coun. Riley Brockington asked how Renée Amilcar is held accountable as he sees no progress on chronically late buses.Renée Amilcar, the city's general manager of transit services, said she may have to do a better job explaining what has to be done to improve service at OC Transpo. A tense exchange over late buses led the head of OC Transpo to brush off what she called a "personal attack" after a city councillor asked who is doing her performance reviews.
"You develop her personal work objectives and assess her at the end of the year on her performance?" Brockington asked."Despite that we have a transit commission, transit commissioners are not formally asked by you to provide input on that assessment, is that correct?" he continued. Amilcar took the helm at OC Transpo in 2021. She was the second-highest paid city employee last year, according to the Ontario Sunshine List, earning a salary of $330,687 plus $7,973 in benefits. Stephanson was the highest paid.Brockington has repeatedly pressed Amilcar on late buses during transit commission meetings, where her team presents statistics about bus service.
"Even though the transit commissioners act as a board of directors, at the end of the day, if certain objectives are not being met, we have no authority or tools to enforce the priorities that we set," he said. "I'm not going to sit here for another year with our data month to month showing statistics that we're not making improvements, because it's impacting our residents and our passengers," he said.
He mentioned the opening of the Trillium rail line, set to begin in phases next month, as one example.
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