The City of Surrey is calling for a public inquiry into concerns surrounding Metro Vancouver.<\/p>\n
Council voted unanimously on Monday to approve a motion to request B.C.\u2019s Inspector of Municipalities to look into concerns around governance and accountability at the regional district.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve tried to work with Metro Vancouver to get to the bottom of some of the challenges that I think everybody knows we\u2019re having,\u201d Mayor Brenda Locke told 1130 NewsRadio.<\/p>\n
\u201cCertainly, there has been significant financial criticism towards Metro Vancouver, but there are so many other reasons. And so it was just time that we said enough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
The city cites concerns over transparency surrounding financial stewardship, fairness, and use of corporate assets, among other issues, with Locke pointing to cost overruns at the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant project as a high-profile example.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have seen scope creep, we\u2019ve seen rising costs, we have seen decisions that do not align with what we want to see as a city,\u201d Locke said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I think there\u2019s so very much more. I mean, we\u2019re also seeing that we are not getting the kind of financial information back. We question some of the engineering decisions, the environmental decisions, and other records and information that we\u2019re getting at the Metro Vancouver table.\u201d<\/p>\n
Overall, she says, whether people live in Surrey, North Vancouver District, or Richmond, they deserve to know how public money is being spent and managed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have started this, but I am certain that other local governments share our concern,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Surrey is calling for a public inquiry into concerns surrounding Metro Vancouver. Council voted unanimously…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-605114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}