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From: Jim
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Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 11:43 PM
Subject: My deputations quantity of 2 that were scheduled for this
evening.....there was a massive mix-up and assumptions made without my being
consulted in any way....message.
Date: Monday, November 5th, 2012
To: Mayor Keith Hobbs and C.c. To those as noted
above.
Subject: My scheduled deputation's (of which as I clearly stated from the beginning of my being
seated ay the deputation's table, that I have not to date received an actual
confirmation letter from the city clerks office) quantity of
"2" that were supposed to be scheduled for this evening.....I believe that there
was a massive mix-up and assumptions made by the city clerks office as
confirmed/explained to myself by Ms. Tina Larocque that Mr. John Hannam decided
on his own accord and without my being consulted in any way shape or form...that
I was somehow going to be expected to make the "2" deputation's which again were
based upon "2" previous entirely separate requests with completely different
subject matters and roll them both together into one (1) ten minute overall
deputation.!!!
Well to say the very least, I was more than dismayed
and equally puzzled with the way in which I was received this evening as I came
to give what I thought were to be two (2) separate deputation's as per my
request's dated September 25th, 2012 as well I personally hand delivered them to
the office of the city clerk, as it all turns out that I was only allow to do
only one (1), someone clearly has their wires crossed and that someone is not
myself for the record.!
Please note as per the information contained in the
subject as noted above, I have been told that it was Mr. John Hanna who
ultimately made this decision, however in my opinion it should have been contra
indicated if in fact he would have read and then maybe re-read my written
requests properly from the start, in no way would I have accepted his decision
had I had prior knowledge or at least been given the courtesy of how this was
all going to play out prior to my arrival this evening, clearly UN-professional.
Needless to say, but I will however clearly state my
thoughts on your getting up and leaving the chamber just prior to my beginning
of my deputation, from all outward appearances Mayor Hobbs, you could not leave
the room fast enough as this is not only my observation but that of friends of
mine who were watching the meeting in the lobby of city hall, where magically
you suddenly appeared and were seen talking with the elder security guard,
instead of being in your chair listening to my deputation as I believe it is
your duty and mandate to do just that.
As a matter of fact, upon me seeing you leave it was at
that time that I made a formal request to the chairman council member Joe
Virdiramo that I would like to hold off on starting my deputation until you came
back into council chambers, I was told that was not possible and that I must
proceed with my 10 minute deputation. Well low and behold right after my
deputation was completed, once again my friend's later said to myself that they
then observed you quickly entering the elevator to the third floor and once
again magically you re-entered the council chambers, perfectly timed I might add
after I was done presenting my deputation.! Well in my opinion, the only person
you are attempting to fool is yourself, and again in my opinion you accomplished
your mission with flying colors, for as it turn s out in your absence I am happy
to inform you that I did not have the opportunity afforded to me to present my
planned second deputation in which you are the key player as it all relates to
the revised subject matter of this deputation.
I feel badly for Ms. Tina Laroque, who unfortunately
was the one tasked to kindly explain to me what had all transpired prior to this
evening, to which I openly called "horsehockey" both to Tina and to Rosalie
Evans outside of council chambers, it was Ms. Evans who kindly intervened in
order to aid both Tina and myself with coming to a reasonable explanation
allowing for my response, as we were drawing too much attention with our
conversation in chambers and possibly we were interrupting the ongoing council
meeting, which was never my direct intention to do, so Ms. Evans, Tina and
myself stepped outside of chambers to discuss this situation further as we did
in fact do. I will let Ms. Evans and Ms. Tina Laroque fill you in from there if
you are so inclined to contact them and collectively speak to them in unison,
which will serve for yourself to be brought up too speed as need to be, seeing
that after all you are the mayor of the city.
So I do look forward to coming back to city hall in
order to complete my second deputation which I was not allowed this evening to
do, as well I expect you mayor Hobbs to be in attendance during my complete 10
minute deputation and respectfully request of you in advance the following to
make sure that you will in fact be there to hear it:
I request that you first contact with John Hannam, our
city clerk and co-ordinate with him a future date for my return to city hall on
which you are not away on any type of vacation, or that you are not committed to
attend any type of event on this same evening of my future deputation, that you
will attend to relieving yourself if deemed necessary prior to the time of my
slated deputation in order that you can not use this as an excuse for having to
leave council chambers before I either begin or complete my complete deputation,
it is my wish to assure myself that you will be in attendance and that I will
have you in the audience to hear and see what it is that I intend to present, I
personally believe that as mayor that would be part of your mandate to the
residents who come before city council as a whole with valid concerns. I would
hope that there would be a proper protocol's in place but apparently there are
none in place with the city which address my concerns of you and others not
acknowledging any of my e-mail messages, which even during our in person meeting
I explained to you was an issue, yet you just blew it off in my opinion as was
the opinion of my associate who was also present at this same meeting of October
2nd, 2012 time 2:00 p.m. at which time this initial meeting was concluded, when
I requested a second longer meeting with you, in turn you advised myself that
your assistant would set that up and that I would be advised of the time and
date accordingly, well that has never come to pass, I am still waiting the
confirmation of the requested meeting as of today's date.!
In closing, I look forward to re-attending a city
council meeting in order for myself to complete what it was I had full
intentions of completing this evening, as I believe it should have been, unfortunately from the city's end of business that was not the case, however
never the less for the time being I will await patiently the hand delivered
letter indicating my next scheduled appearence, as promised this evening by Ms.
Evans and for that I thank her as well for ensuring that what transpired from my
initial request date once again of September 25th, 2012 to what brings me
here at this point in time and the reason for composing and sending this e-mail
message and for your information, I will also be faxing a hard copy to your
office to ensure that you do get my message. I am simply making doubly sure
that you are keenly aware of my position and thoughts as they related to what I
consider to be the faux-pa moment of this evening unfortunately.
Regards,
Jim Gamble Jr.
Thunder Bay, Ontario
NOTE: A copy of this e-mail will
be faxed to the attention of Mayor Keith Hobbs,
it will be sent to fax number
807- 623-1164 via Fax Zero.
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