You Do Not Prove Anything With Statistics.
you do not prove anything with statistics.
You Can Prove Anything With Statistics
To tell the truth, I am not exactly sure. Its existence was unknown to me until the Planning Director informed me a development application had been referred to the division during the application process.
I was aware there was one at the Region in the CAO's office . Aurora's CAO was its manager prior to appointment here.
But we all know the value of statistics. Anything can be argued ..
The town's last police chief was particularly fond of statistics.
We had a department fourteen strong. There was a murder one year. None the next. According to statistics, that was a hundred per cent reduction in the murder rate.Naturally reduction by one hundred per cent in the murder rate was attributed to excellent police work..
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Hans Zeisel
The murder was never solved. Naturally it meant we needed more detectives. Of course, you can't reduce manpower on the streets.That would lead to an increase in the murder rate and other mayhem. Which naturally meant we needed more manpower.
In 2010,water rates were increased by 12%. Water loss estimates were increased from 8% to !2% Which contributed to the increase in water rates.
I asked for numbers of breaks to support the rational for water loss. We spend millions in infrastructure maintenance presumably to avoid water breaks and other water loss. Water loss should therefore have gone down rather than up.. The directors refused to provide the numbers. I was informed they were afraid I would distort the figures.
Recently we received a graph showing numbers of water breaks; an average of eight a year..
We don't fix them ourselves. We contract them out.We contract out snow plowing, sidewalk snow plowing. street sweeping and street light maintenance
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Keith Laurence
We retain consultants to design roads and sidewalks.We have policies we stick to as if they are cast in concrete or chiseled in stone.
Last night committee recommended approval to council ,to call for contracts for sewer uplift pumps and generators.
We buy fleets of vehicles.
In 2010, we bought a street sweeper for $150,000. or maybe it was $184,000 It's hard to keep track of the figures.
When the first snow fell, remains of the autumn leaf drop and other litter were still on the streets and around the catch basins and blowing into surrounding shrubbery.
School children will go out with the Mayor on a Spring day and pick up litter that wasn't removed by town's contracted street sweepers in their second and last sweep of the year.
It seems everything that can be contracted out by public works has been.
It should mean less yard space required. Fewer vehicles. Less shop space.
It doesn't.
A space needs consultant. was retained . He reports the need for additional space to accommodate our continuing burgeoning population of manpower,vehicles and equipment at an estimated cost of $17 million.
It appears contractors we retain to save on manpower, vehicles, equipment and supplies, store their vehicles, equipment and supplies in our yard and possibly use the building's amenities as well. Why wouldn't they?
Harry Fry's dismantled barn is also in the works yard. It was previously stored at the hydro building. We retained a contractor to move it to the works yard when we leased the hydro building to the Department of National Defence under a secret agreement for less rent than we will spend on the building in the first several years of the ten year lease.
There are no plans I know of to re-erect Harry Fry's barn .
We made a developer dismantle it and truck it to the hydro building because it was unique in Ontario, according to the heritage expert on our payroll.
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