Mayor Sandra Masters has started the ball rolling on one of her election promises.
During a meeting of executive committee on Wednesday, a plan to start an efficiency review for the city was approved.
Conducting an efficiency review was a key promise of Masters’ 2020 campaign as she said such a review in which she is committed to finding 15 percent in savings from increased operational efficiencies would be done within her first six months in office.
Masters says she is fascinated to see how the review will go, but she says the aim of it is not to see job loss.
“That is not the intent at all.” stressed Masters when speaking about the review Wednesday afternoon. “It truly is how to do we free up people’s time, how do we make processes make more efficient so that with the assets and the capital and the human resources we have, how to we deliver more with what we currently have.
Executive Committee also approved a loan to address financing needed for a Buffalo Pound water treatment plant renewal project.
The loan is to a maximum of 60million dollars with the Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Corporation paying the money back over the next 25 years. This will not result in an increase to the water rates that the city pays.
Both have to be approved by City Council before they go ahead. The next council meeting is planned for February 24.
