Council must mind its own glass house

From the Niagara Falls Review:

They’ve got a lot of nerve on city council to criticize the Niagara Parks Commission over the appearance of Queen Victoria Park, when the city pumps raw sewage into the Niagara River.

City councillors like to dole out the free advice, but they’re in a big glass house when it comes to telling any other government agency how to run things better.

At Monday’s meeting, council is giving a soapbox to Preserve Our Parks, a watchdog group that keeps tabs on the parks commission…

It probably wouldn’t take much effort to drive around Niagara Falls and see a bunch of similar damage at city-owned buildings, pothole-covered roads or long grass at parks.

One thought on “Council must mind its own glass house

  1. I was down in the park a couple of times recently (most recently July 18) and saddened to see the state some of the park is in. I think the Parks Commission’s first mandate should be the beautification and upkeep of the park. They spent millions of dollars on upgrades to the Table Rock Plaza buildings, yet there are railings along the gorge that are in need of a paint job and some that are in need of replacing. In The Review article, an NPC spokesperson said the photos “show the kind of damage that typically happens over a winter season”. I don’t think that is the case in the railings I was looking at.

    These are not necessarily items visitors recognize when they are in good shape, but do when they are not.

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