Dear Editor
Re: Mayor failing to show leadership on housing, Inbox, Burnaby NOW, May 25.
Earl’s letter highlighting the lamentable lack of leadership coming out of city hall is not nearly new news. In fact this lingering leadership void has been getting bigger since the last election and is showing no signs of abatement. The succinct presentation by the Burnaby Art Council regarding their proposal for a new art gallery was nearly drowned out by the collective snoring of the mayor and council. Again no action by the mayor except to bring up a 30-year-old referendum issue and then fob the matter off to staff with no apparent positive endorsement. Staff got the message.
Further, Terry Mcdonald presented a cogent compilation of broken promises outlining the lack of action from the mayor on the mitigation of traffic issues impacting the Brentwood neighbourhood from the ongoing and ever increasing densification of Brentwood Town Centre. The mayor’s response: “What do you want me to do?”
Make it right is what we want you do, but instead it once again got fobbed off and buried in favor of something more exciting like demovictims.
Enough is enough. It is time for the mayor to put his retirement plans on hold, roll up his sleeves, rouse the councilors from their torpor and get back to working for the citizens of Burnaby.
Darcy Olson, Burnaby
