Time for the CAO to go

RE: ALL THE CHAIR’S MEN, AUG. 30

According to the site Plagiarism.org, plagiarism is “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own,” and “to use (another’s production) without crediting the source.”

As a taxpayer of Niagara Region I include the above definitions in order to demand termination of the contract of Niagara Region CAO Carmen D’Angelo without further compensation after this current calendar year.

I base this on the fact he was awarded the position upon the false premise that answers to questions assigned by the Phelps Group, the firm chosen to lead the hiring process, were his own, when in fact much of the work was done by Jason Tamming.

Tamming at the time was director of communications for current Chair Alan Caslin, and while it is possible Caslin knew nothing about the involvement of Tamming, it stretches belief that this is not so considering Tamming worked for and reported to Caslin.

In other words, D’Angelo was awarded the position through plagiarism and his appointment should be deemed null and void.

This council under Caslin has become nothing more than a costly farce, what with: paying two police chiefs because someone had a personal issue with the past chief; a bridge coming in tens of millions of dollars over budget and no report made public or anyone held responsible; councillors billing taxpayers for trips to Toronto; a councillor being paid for not being present at meetings for almost a full year; and councillors billing taxpayers to promote their own re-election campaigns.

It is time for many of these self-serving individuals to be voted out and have a slate of councillors elected who actually have the best interests of this region at heart. Richard Ciupa

Welland