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Lexington Road and â€" under your skin with their cold calls. their interruptions recommendations and the ' .1 Waterloo Park reconstruction ‘ “'6 W'alsflfl‘(7'm'€'< I‘Whllsl‘cd around dinner time and the way they fill up our response from city hall has :. get fast-tracked at the ; iig‘lag;i"°l‘:‘da’ h" Mc'm'a'm recycling bins been typical gobbledygook ’1 expense of more mundane f ONTARIO Rags (‘()UN(:[L So no one could blame Waterloo resident Robert Falla The committee recom» . run-of-the-mill street resur- ; The Waterloo Chronicle n a member when he got one of these pitches and decided to ask the mended council compare , 7 facing and sewer replace- M'nr O'Iwm PIT“ Council ”In?" company where they got all his personal information, total city compensation to ‘* ' ‘ merits? ‘ a??? “(TK'I'T’VF‘C‘lf‘f'a'mnmtfl including the size of his lot. local organizations The task force also recom- ' M‘sfixfihions «immoriuxmrmt He was shocked to hear the response on the other What was the response? mended ending the use of ‘ «mild first be taken in the newspa- end of the line that the information came directly from The HR department at city the Municipal Price Index Ix" Unfl‘SQchd complimffi can if the City of Waterloo. hall went out and just looked ed financial statements This is a calculation within a (@435: gfi‘gfl‘l‘lffi&(‘}“{:£h; ‘ This was confirmed by inquiries the Chronicle made at pensions and group bene« Every day the city pays its calculation used by the City , 0N_MSBI13‘ Itself to the lawncare company, who Stated the city was fits and divided that into unionized employees for to figure out what the prop~ i comma" the source of the information. total payroll and stated oom- their half hour lunch. What my tax increase will be. hangings; at: 3:331: at: Aren't there government privacy laws to prevent the pensation was comparable other organization other Our committee was made if“ “my {a ”final mmfip sale or distribution of taxpayer information to for-profit to local organizations. than the city would pay up of experienced profes. rial purposes All other “gnu are companies How misleading. A vast someone for thejrlunch? sionals who had a hard time mod and commercial use is my Waterloo CAO Ted Anderson said if this information amount of the city's employ. Is it not just common figuring the MPI out, If we filmed T“ M in) W “r In“ mit- is getting out there. it isn't from the city. He reaffirmed it ees, from lifeguards to sum- sense to work 40 hours for 40 couldn’t figure it out then I'm a“: «V2? wafglmflf WI: was illegal for the municipality to share this information mer students. are part-timers hours of pay? Why are taxi not sure how councilors can. atrium manual” ““11. 5M, in this kind ofcontext. ’ ‘ who get no pension or group payers paying library But in the end it does meet vm. Mung” who“ waterim But he said there are other ways that these compa. benefits. so the payroll num- employees ovenime to work the political goal of raising Chronicle, :79 Wchcr St N , Sum: nics can get that information, even if you are on the fed- her is greatly inflated. weekends when these higher tax revenue 20- wm- MW” mg era] government's do-not-call “5‘- After that report. council employees were hired just to Hundreds of hours were ‘ fjmrswrg’lif‘r'nw “mum [ht No one begrudges a private business trying to solicit patted themselves on the work weekends? spent by the task force : Arum full name. addrcu and trig. clients. especially for these types of seasonal semces. back for being such good These are just two exam- researching information to 3' phone number Addmm and It'll“ Spring does get people thinking about taking care of stewards ofour money, This ples from a long list of come up with our recomâ€" 1 PM"c "Wm“ my“? 'l‘l' ””2; their properties for those few short months of glorious comes at a time when total changes council could make mendations, but after a year ' Li$l£r§°§$§$3§$h 3:14". Weather we enjoy. , compensation has been to compensation. But they it looks like itwasall in vain. ‘ - mark-use or meet my «minimum Iur BU! hOW and Where they Obtained {hm p8r50nal increasing at a rate of seven would rather raise taxes than "‘ 4‘ hm") at It“! puma“ 1mm may information is a concern, Perhaps it‘s something the per cent year after year cut expenses Hardy Willmt isa/ormpr I ”it ‘Yzcm?_r;£‘xlg"l"" “‘ province's privacy watchdog might want to look into? according to the city's audit The committee also made member o/rhe budgw task [one UK I Una