4 ~ Friday, December 10, 1993 - North Shore News

Greater Tiddlycove moves into a

For instance, | experienced
wicked secretions of my ridicule
gland when. coincident with
Monday's cheerful meeting and
public reception, tread the freshly
released District of West
Vancouver Stritegic
Plan,

Actually, it made
me sad for participato-
ry, consensual, thor-
oughly modern demac-
tracy.

Also it made me
think. Did Louis XIV
have a Strategic Plan?
Gengis Khan? The
great Constantine? Or
Winston Charchill?

“We shall fight them in commit-
tee rooms. We shall fight them with
public relations campaigns. We
shall fight them with initiatives....1
have nothing to offer but bureaucra-
ey, equal hiring practices, sensitivi-

ty training and consultants’
Teports.”

This particular Strategic Plan for
our town was indeed prepared by
consultants - Dugal Smith &
Associates, Burnaby.

(Burmaby? Have we no jargon
factories in West Vancouyer?)

Trevor
Lautens

GARDEN OF BIASES ,

GREATER TIDDLY-
COVE’S spanking new coun-
cil, six-sevenths of it -
“unchanged from the previous
‘one, rosily set forth Monday
night on the odyssey of its
next three exciting years of
leadership of our vibrant —
and hypnotically beautiful

*Continiious improvement in
operations and standards

*Comman sense decisions and
judgment

*Long range planning ;

*Empowered, approachable and

$66 Have we no jargon factories in

West Vancouver? 99

responsive staff

“Acknowledgement of perfor-
mance and contribution ==

End of excerpt.There is, more
usefully, a summation - some of it
awkwardly truncated - of major
council initiatives from!990 to
1993.

Otherwise, the Strategic Plan
conveyed nothing of substance that
isn't already known, and less than
the new councillors divulged in
their brief inaugural-night state-
ments.

House - an incredible buandoggle,
Id say - are scheduled to open July
1 next year, a foot-dragging three or
four years after the ald house was
purchased.

The sote discussion of any of the
items on the agenda
occurred when Coun,
Andy Danyliu stated
thai. in Keeping with
his clection promise,
this month council
will try to persuade
the school board to
move its regular
Monday night .meet-
ing to another night in
order to avoid the
clash with council's
own Monday night meeting, and, if
the board can’t be persuaded, coun-
cillors will consider persuading - .
itself to move its meeting night.

new era

ft was an altogether chaning
evening, and only through strength
of character did [steal away after-
wards from the reception and its
yumtny-louking food, on the princi-
ple that [ didn’t want eat into tax-
payers’ money.

Even the gods nod.

I'm embarrassed that in recent
columns I got John Catchpole's
name confused with that of a well-
known professor at the University
of Manitoba, end turned school
board candidate Tim Slater into
Mayor Mark Sager's mentor
instead of his proicge.

Also the verb “intimated”
became “intimidated” in a recent
column, but proofreaders,of which |
was once one, make the odd slip, :
tao,

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“Oh, don’t be such a cynic. If you,

think there’s a thread of light satire
running saucily between the lines of
the above, you are probably strain-

ing your eyes looking for it, and are .

in danger of developing a severe
squint on life itself.

No, honestly, the inaugural
meeting of the Greater Tiddlycove
{also kr-wn as West Vancouver) ~
council was genuinely e;.thusiastic
and high-spirited.- — ,

Also, ] want to establish that I
“am personally fond enough: of our *
councillors that £ voted for most of
them - surely the ultimate proof of
sincerity. :

It’s just that God put me on
earth to ensure that they don’t

become too complacent. i

‘ Having said that, I’m obliged to:
point out that I’m just a tad short of |
" perfection myself.

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The new council will deal with
such issues as expansion of the
seniors’ centre. The possible
rebuilding, even relocatian, of the
Horseshoe Bay firehall.

Oh yes, and the museum and
archives at the Gertrude Lawson

And, as Churchill would say:
“Never were so many cliches
stuffed into so few facts.”

I don’t want to be unfair to
Dugal Smith & Associates , and
even less. perish the thought, to the
West Vancouver authorities who

- commissioned their wordy labors
and paid for it with taxpayers’
money: So judge for yourself.

Here, in whole, to take a random
sample, are the “Management
Values” listed in the Strategic Plan:

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resources

*Faimness in applying regulations
and controls

*Shared information

«Service, cheerfully provided

«Openness to consultation

sHonesty in dealing with people

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