Why public input now?

The recent request for public input by Vernon City Council comes at a very late stage in the development of the new recreation and programing MOU. If this group of politicians were really interested in what the public had to say on how things had been run I feel they should have been approached much earlier in the process in the process. That said, it is good agreement which clearly defines an efficient management model. The price of that efficiency is the burden future financial liabilities of these facilities falling to the Vernon taxpayer alone. This would occur if for some reason Coldstream , B and C were to withdraw from funding model. These protracted negotiations could have been avoided altogether in there were one municipal government for Greater Vernon.

This desire for public input was not demonstrated in the case of the Parks MOU which involved the city trading away Kal Beach for lower valued Kin Beach lots. Why the difference in attitude? Just the kind of thing that  make this blogger scratch his head.