Handwritten notes on TTC doc: how to cancel a fare hike
Mayor Rob Ford can expect some teasing mixed with the relief at news that city staff and the TTC have, in a day, found $24 million to cancel a threatened 10 cent fare hike.
Ford revealed the threat of a hike at a Monday morning pre-budget news conference, repeatedly saying "I am not happy with this" but putting his full confidence in TTC chair Karen Stintz to save the city's commuters.
On Tuesday, Stintz announced she has done just that, with a $16 million boost in the TTC's funding (the city won't say which pot it came from) and $8 million from the TTC (which says they will find the money later).
That might lead to charges of back-of-a-napkin-style budgeting. A document posted on the TTC's website suggests that might be all too true.
On the Commission Meeting Agenda and Reports page of the TTC's official website, clicking on the link for the 2011 operating budget takes you here
On what looks like a scanned-in document, a line is drawn in blue pen through the sentence: "Approve a 10 cent fare increase effective January 30th is shown in Appendix B" and also a section on funding.
Below that is a handwritten note stating: 10 cent fare increase (24), City subsidy 16, unspecified budget reduction 8
Other notes are contained in the document, including knocking down a list of $66 million in expenditures to $58 million.
Anyone recognize the handwriting? Below is a Karen Stintz signature.
This city's mayor & his people are a joke. Budget sleights of hand, electoral dirty tricks, and public manipulation are far far worse than the previous administration, where David Miller brought transparency & accountability to City Hall.
If you vote for an angry man with no plan, this is what you get. There should be a war on buffoons, to add to the war on the car.
Posted by: Transparency & Accountability In Government | 01/12/2011 at 10:31 AM
Based on that signature and the writing above it, a different person wrote the note on the doc: a is completely different, s and e are different... What's the point?
Posted by: adavis | 01/12/2011 at 01:35 PM