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Post by DENelson83 on Nov 23, 2013 14:48:13 GMT -8
BCFS announced a new appointee to their board, last week. The media release does not mention any marine transportation industry experience of Mr. Johnson. Well, now he's gone.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2013 19:35:09 GMT -8
Now, if we could only get the rest of the members of the board to resign we could save some real money! If the board was eliminated as well as the office of the ferry commissioner it would be a good first step toward cutting unnecessary and wasteful expenditures.
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Post by WettCoast on Nov 23, 2013 20:01:04 GMT -8
Now, if we could only get the rest of the members of the board to resign we could save some real money! If the board was eliminated as well as the office of the ferry commissioner it would be a good first step toward cutting unnecessary and wasteful expenditures. Its not just the Authority & Commission; its BC Ferry Services too. It has been obvious that this ideology-driven experiment was a failure since a few years after the plan was hatched.
They should also be looking to cut expenses by getting rid of their high-rent downtown Victoria corporate offices. I am sure that the rent they are paying per year is a significant chunk of change. Do we know the actual $$$ figures?
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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 23, 2013 21:07:21 GMT -8
They should also be looking to cut expenses by getting rid of their high-rent downtown Victoria corporate offices. I am sure that the rent they are paying per year is a significant chunk of change. Do we know the actual $$$ figures? I don't know the actual $$$ cost of their new Atrium location, but here's a post that gives some detail of the move from Fort St. to Atrium Coastal Atrium=========== And BCFS helped to finance the new building's construction. Bank of BCFS
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Post by WettCoast on Nov 23, 2013 22:28:55 GMT -8
I think ferry users ought to be told how much head office space is costing the company each year.
A shrinking company on life support must exercise all means of reducing their overhead. They owe this to the peons living in Sandspit and so many other ferry-dependant communities up & down this coast who are taking a wallop from the Govt of BC & BCFS.
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Post by Neil on Nov 23, 2013 23:44:37 GMT -8
I think ferry users ought to be told how much head office space is costing the company each year. A shrinking company on life support must exercise all means of reducing their overhead. They owe this to the peons living in Sandspit and so many other ferry-dependant communities up & down this coast who are taking a wallop from the Govt of BC & BCFS. Whenever comparisons are made between BC Ferries and Washington State Ferries, some Liberal operative or BC Ferries spokes-type dismisses the comparison as apples and oranges... because BC Ferries is clearly the Mercedes Benz to WSF's soccer-mom-wagon.
The two systems clearly are different- WSF has no equivalent to route ten, and they don't serve up eggs benny on any of their routes. But does that justify the byzantine governance structure that we have here, and, as WCK points out, the corporate headquarters, and as well, the four hundred and fifty managers?
Gordon Campbell was a policy wonk, and a systems guy, as well as a dogmatic private enterprise type. He set up a ludicrous governance structure that has cost British Columbians tons of money, and partly, as a result of that, has resulted in a dramatic contraction in essential transportation links.
A couple of days ago, the Vancouver Province's Michael Smyth supported a point that I'd made about the conflict of interest in the whole mess, when he mentioned how a portion of Mike Corrigan's salary bonus was directly derived from his input into BC Ferries' 're-visioning' of their role in the service model for our coast. Service is cut, and execs benefit from it.
I was going to say that WSF's David Moseley must be looking north with salary envy... but I'm not going to assume he's that unrealistic.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 22, 2014 14:51:29 GMT -8
The quarterly complaints report has been released. - yes, there is such a thing. HERE=============== This is one of those regulatory items, where BC Ferries is required to report to the Ferry Commissioner on the type of complaints received, their root cause, and any resolutions of the issues.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Mar 7, 2017 16:25:04 GMT -8
The BC Ferry Commissioner has issued a revised set of criteria for evaluating/approving major capital expenditures of BCFS: The key addition (from what I can tell) is this new criteria item that I've underlined: From HERE
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Post by Nick on Mar 7, 2017 16:32:00 GMT -8
The BC Ferry Commissioner has issued a revised set of criteria for evaluating/approving major capital expenditures of BCFS: The key addition (from what I can tell) is this new criteria item that I've underlined: From HEREAnd yet more evidence that the separation of government and BCF in the current structure is a sham.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Mar 7, 2017 17:01:17 GMT -8
And yet more evidence that the separation of government and BCF in the current structure is a sham. Yes. I'm thinking that the Government's resurrection of the Port Hardy - Bella Coola ferry, with it's relatively quick timeline, is one of the reasons for this change.
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