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Marcie Good
News Reporter

IN the wake of an
investigation which
caught several works yard
employees not doing their jobs,
North Vancouver District coun-
cil has voted to audit the parks
and engineering department.

“I'm not interested in scapegoats, |
don’t want blood on the floor,” said
Coun. Doug MacKay-Duan, who put
forward the motion. “This is good busi-
ness, and net to do it would be negli-
gent.”

The district will engage an external
auditor to conduct an independent audit
of all management systems within the
division.

Insisting this is not an “inquisition,”
Mayor Don Bell agreed. Because the

department accounts for the largest part
of the district’s budget — SE.8 million
in management services alone — and
“encompasses such a wide range of dis-
ciplines,” he said an audit would be use-
ful.

“T think it is prudent in business on a
periodic basis to have a review of svs-
tems,” he said.

At the end of August, five workers
were investigated for “theft of time”
after managers received complaints
about district vehicles parked in unusual
locations for long periods of time. Three
workers each received three-day suspen-
sions, one was dismissed, and 4 section
manager resigned.

Coun. Lisa Muri was the only one to
vote against the motion, and questioned

council orders audit

Parks and engineering dent. to
be examined after ‘time theft’

why an external auditor
should come in to do a job
staff are hired to do.

“LT just wonder when we're
going to trust our staff,” she
said. “We haven’: stopped criticizing
every department in this municipalirn
and | need a breather.”

Coun. Janice Harris, while support-
ing the motion “reluctantly,” also
warned council against: assuming an
external audit would be a “golden bul-
tet.”

The experience of the recently
appointed Values Analysis Task Force,
she said, has shown thar committees
formed to look at matters of efficiency
can asily become “unwieldy and expen-
sive.”

“PI bet dollars to doughnuts that
this auditor will come in and ask, ‘What
do you want me to do? and we'll go
around the table and everyone will have
a different idea.”

Diebolt on May 5:

Roberto Cesar = Soto-
Contreras, 23, of no fixed
address, received six months*
probation after he pleaded
guilty to stealing merchan-
dise belonging to Mark's
Work Wearhouse on Dec. 7,
1999 in North Vancouver
District. -

Soto-Contreras was
required to write a “letrer of
apclogy. in English” to
Mark’s Work Wearhouse.

Soto-Contreras was also
required to perform 25
hours of community work.

ees

Before Judge. Bill
Rodgers on April 19:

Saied Ghanbaripour, 35,
of Vancouver, was jailed 30

2. .THE following people
“have appeared in
North Vancouver
provincial court:

eos
Before Judge Jerome

Francisco Jose Morales,
32, of no fixed address, was
jailed 120 days and had his
driver's licence suspended
until March 2002 after he
pleaded guilty to two charges
of driving while prohibited:
@ oon Sept 17, 1999 in
Coquidam,

@on Oct. 31, 1999 in North
Vancouver City.
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Before Judge
Moss on April 12:

Karl David Rispin, 21, of
no fixed address, received 12
months’ probation. after he
pleaded guilty to possessing
“household and. automobile
products” belonging to a
man on June 8, 1999 in West

Doug

Vancouver,

Rispin was required to
perform 25 hours of commu-
nity work.

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Paradis on July 18:

<.. Robert Victor Curry, 34,
of. | North Vancouver,

. received nine menths’ proba-
tion after he pleaded guilty
‘to stealing a man’s vehicle on
Feb, 15 in Noreh Vancouver

City.

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perform 25 hours ofcommu-

days after be pleaded guilty
to:

ing to Sears Canada on Dec.
18, 1999 in) North
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® stealing = merchandise
belonging to. Canada
Safeway on Feb. 28, 1999 in
Burnaby.

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