Mayor John Tory wants the city to take legal action in the wake of an auditor general report that suggested that some privately contracted tree maintenance crews were billing the city for work that wasn’t actually completed.
, which will be considered by the city’s audit committee on Friday, is based on an analysis of the GPS records for the vehicles used by 28 privately contracted tree maintenance crews.
During that time, the report said that some of the vehicles went to locations other than the assigned tree service locations, such as coffee shops, plazas or residential houses.“The apparent finding of work paid for but not done raises issues of serious possible misconduct amounting to the ripping off of the city government and therefore by extension the city's taxpayers,” Tory said in an open letter sent to Audit Committee Chair Stephen Holyday on Tuesday.
“This will put all city suppliers on notice that this kind of rip off will not be tolerated,” he said in the open letter.Romeo-Beehler’s report found issues with daily logs filled out by 28 of the 45 privately contracted crews responsible for tree maintenance.
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