trevorhayden
Active Member
I am concerned that the City Manager is pushing these balanced people out so he can replace them with his own ideologically motivated people.
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Agreed, Adam was an excellent leader.Another very senior and impactful position will soon be open with Adam's departure. While I might have not always been overly supportive of the department's delivery models and performance, Adam was one of the most thoughtful and kind people at the CEO.
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- Adam Laughlin, the deputy city manager for Integrated Infrastructure Services at the City of Edmonton is set to leave his position on Feb. 2, Postmedia reported. His departure marks the fifth high-ranking official to leave the city’s executive leadership team in the past year, following a series of departures that began in March 2023. Laughlin has been with the city since 2005 and played a key role in Edmonton’s infrastructure projects and pandemic response.-Taproot
Technically Council has two direct employees: the City Manager and the City Auditor.He is City Council's only employee, it's up to them if he continues or not.
Did anybody really think that OP12 wouldn’t be painful even if it could be successfully implemented?
It was nothing but a game of kick the can that allowed Council and Administration to avoid hard decisions at the time.
The fact that these assumed savings were then incorporated in future budgets with no assurance that they would be achievable and no commitment from Council to achieve/enforce them was always an exercise doomed to fail.
Also just to argue in the let's not beat up on ourselves too hard card. Some of Edmonton's current policies are quite supportive of density with zoning initiatives, new build densities, parking requirements. There's a lot of work to get past the much less dense post-war neighborhoods but infill is happening and will be hard to ever compare ourselves to communities with physical limitations on their borders (Mountains, Lakes, Oceans, etc...)
It is also rather hard and quite expensive to say blast through rock and vertically challenging areas to build roads and other transportation infrastructure, so that is a limitation too.Also just to argue in the let's not beat up on ourselves too hard card. Some of Edmonton's current policies are quite supportive of density with zoning initiatives, new build densities, parking requirements. There's a lot of work to get past the much less dense post-war neighborhoods but infill is happening and will be hard to ever compare ourselves to communities with physical limitations on their borders (Mountains, Lakes, Oceans, etc...)