Ottawa Chief Librarian Barbara Clubb has okayed the use of the Bookmobile as a float in this weeks Gay Pride Parade.
This is the same Chief Librarian Barbara Clubb who did nothing when a pile of steaming crap was left in the mens room of the downtown branch despite several complaints. At that time the Library’s story was “There isn’t enough money in the city budget for instant cleanup”.
Yet we have money to fill the gas tank of the bookmobile and drive it around the city in the Gay Pride parade.
So it is obvious to me that Barbara Clubb feels the Gay Pride Parade is a better way to spend our tax dollars than to have a steaming pile of shhhhhhhhhhaving cream cleaned up off the floor of our library.
I think it’s time the city of Ottawa find a new chief Librarian.
Once again, the tax payers get Officially Screwed.
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Different part of the budget. Janitorial service is “Operations and Maintenance” whereas parades are “Publicity & Entertainment” but I see your point…
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CaNN :: We started it.
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This is an inappropriate analogy. If one public washroom is out of commission but others are available (they were), how serious a problem is it? And what does this have to do with the Library’s participation in major community events, which is what it tries to do as a community organization? The Library has limited control over its contracts for facilities maintenance at any given time. You can make political mileage out of anything if you make it simplistic enough.
Dave Thomas