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Nov. 9 - Nov. 16, 2003 |
Managers Flee Vaughan
Mayor Michael Di Biase speaks about change in management
By Francesco Riondino
Originally Published: 2003-10-26
Seven executives, including managers and other officials, have left their load on the City of Vaughan in the last year and a half, and some critical voices have blamed this "exodus" to a lack of leadership in Michael Di Biase's role as mayor.
Following this criticism a series of articles have appeared in the Toronto Star and in Vaughan Citizen. The latter in particular gives voice to the accusations of ex-community councillor Mario G. Racco that points the finger towards Di Biase "and his leaches" and nostalgia of the "Jackson era".
The City of Vaughan responded to the accusations made with a press conference this past Tuesday. Mayor Di Biase and the city manager Michael De Angelis wanted to underline how the rapport between the council and the managerial staff is optimal and everyone is working to give citizens the best service possible.
"The city administration," explains De Angelis, "is like a bus where people get on and off. My mission is to drive this bus, the mission of the council is to decide which route to take."
Some of the people that are "descending" from De Angelis' metaphorical bus have done so to search new alliances in the public or private sector, some, in probability, because they were not compatible with the new administrative management.
The new management is due to the passing of the ex-mayor of Vaughan Lorna Jackson and the arrival of Michael Di Biase guiding the city. From that point, nothing much has changed and the first to change above all was the city manager, who within the municipal administration is a bit like the COO (Chief Operating Officer) of a normal company. As change is normal, it has brought some novelty to the internal bureaucratic mechanisms, the competence of diverse departments have been redesignated, and new managerial positions were created to respond to the needs of a city that is growing like no other in Canada.
"Change is normal for a city growing with a such a high rate and when every year there is around 10,000 people that have decided to call Vaughan home," explains Di Biase, "and this door is also a revival of the managerial structure."
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