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It Seems We’ve Replaced King Bob with Queen Merete Pt 2

allardkg

May 4, 2022
4 min

It Seems We’ve Replaced King Bob with Queen Merete Pt 2

Repeal Bylaws 4662 and 4311! This combines two posts originally published to my Facebook page. RECAP (Not all is verbatim) Acting City Manager (ACM) Merete Heggelund told the Council Employee Committee (CEC) that she doesn’t want Council to have the results of the Employee Engagement Survey as “hearing the opinions of employees about their working conditions is not allowed”. She said if she’d been ACM when the committee was formed, she’d have prevented it. Employer reviews on

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It Seems We’ve Replaced King Bob with Queen Merete

allardkg

May 3, 2022
3 min

It Seems We’ve Replaced King Bob with Queen Merete

April 26 2022 Council Employee Committee (CEC) Meeting I’ve been silent about Merete Heggelund’s appointment as Acting City Manager (ACM) after King Bob “retired”. Her appointment seemed reasonable and it was only temporary. Tuesday I heard we might not find a new City Manager before 2023 so now I must Speak Out and Speak Up Background During the campaign, we candidates heard from many city employees about how unhappy they were with their employment. Benefits

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Origins of Invest Medicine Hat (IMH) Pt 3

allardkg

Apr 18, 2022
2 min

Origins of Invest Medicine Hat (IMH) Pt 3

Nov 2 2018 Ryan Jackson (Invest Medicine Hat) said: “The potential to build a bio-diesel refinery in Medicine Hat is part of joint-venture discussions made public Thursday between a renewable energy technology firm and an investors group in Grande Prairie.” https://medicinehatnews.com/news/local-news/2018/11/02/bio-diesel-refinery-possible/ Dec 16 2018 “Raphael Bohlmann, president of Renewable U, stated Tuesday that the group is preparing to acquire land in Grande Prairi

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Origins of Invest Medicine Hat (IMH) Pt 2

allardkg

Apr 18, 2022
2 min

Origins of Invest Medicine Hat (IMH) Pt 2

Ryan Jackson, Jon Sookocheff, Aurora, Folium Biosciences, Contract Transfer, Orka “Jackson told the News that after working with the Colorado-based company to promote the city, he was offered the position. After receiving city council approval to transfer the economic development contract, he’ll join Folium on April 1 (2019).” Guess who it was transferred to - “From the city’s perspective, it needed to approve the transfer of the contract to operate Invest – which is legal

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Origins of Invest Medicine Hat (IMH) Pt 1

allardkg

Apr 18, 2022
2 min

Origins of Invest Medicine Hat (IMH) Pt 1

In 2015, the running of IMH was contracted to Ryan Jackson’s company Rameco Consulting. IMH is trademarked, it legally belongs to the City. IMH started the process of bringing in Aurora Sun in 2017; a MOU was signed with the City in April 2018. It was going to be the world’s biggest marijuana grow/processing plant promising 450 well paying permanent jobs starting in February 2019. "The MOU includes a 10-year 42 mega watt energy supply agreement." https://lethbridgenewsnow.com

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allardkg

Apr 16, 2022
2 min

Invest Medicine Hat, the NWIA Plan and the Clubs Pt 3

What Can Council Do to Fix It? Recap – this Plan will eventually displace existing clubs, some who’ve been there 30 years. They’ve invested over a million dollars at their current location; they were moved there at the City’s behest. What can Council do? Remember #InvestMedicineHat (IMH) works for US. YOU tell IMH what to do. Start by DIRECTING IMH to find a suitable site for an Entertainment District to encompass the drag strip race track gun range RC Flyers Motocross with

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Invest Medicine Hat,The NWIA Plan and the Clubs Pt 2

allardkg

Apr 16, 2022
2 min

Invest Medicine Hat,The NWIA Plan and the Clubs Pt 2

Where the Hell Are They Supposed to Go? Invest Medicine Hat #IMH was in charge of developing this plan, they hired #Stantec. IMH boasts “From business development to planning services and procurement, we are here for you. “ https://www.investmedicinehat.ca/about-us To me it is not enough to identify a #problem, you must also identify a #solution. So why have they not identified possible locations for the clubs? Surely, they know what is available. Isn’t that their JOB? Maybe

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Invest Medicine Hat, the NWIA Plan and the Clubs Pt 1

allardkg

Apr 15, 2022
2 min

Invest Medicine Hat, the NWIA Plan and the Clubs Pt 1

Background. Invest Medicine Hat (IMH) wants to develop the Northwest Industrial Area. Five clubs lease some of that land from the City, some have been there for 30 years. They were all pretty much told to move there at the City's request. Now IMH says they will need to relocate in 10-15 years but has no place for them to go. Their leases have a clause where they can be kicked out with 90 days notice, lease or no lease. This is from a series of Facebook posts starting April

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An Open Letter to Council Re No Holiday Transit Service

allardkg

Feb 21, 2022
3 min

An Open Letter to Council Re No Holiday Transit Service

I sent this letter today, I added the links to this post. If you want to copy this letter to send to council members, please feel free to do so. Here are the e-mail addresses, just copy and paste into the recipient line. It works well for me. mayor@medicinehat.ca robdum@medicinehat.ca cashid@medicinehat.ca darhir@medicinehat.ca allkno@medicinehat.ca andmcg@medicinehat.ca ramrob@medicinehat.ca shisha@medicinehat.ca alivan@medicinehat.ca Greetings; This is being sent to all co

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So Who Will Be Our Acting CAO January 31?

allardkg

Jan 23, 2022
2 min

So Who Will Be Our Acting CAO January 31?

I’ve heard from a number of people who are concerned that the Managing Director of Energy and Infrastructure Brad Maynes will be chosen. I share their concerns. I looked into Mr Maynes last year and did a couple of posts, so I will just quote from them. I’ve got another advocacy project on the go right now so my time is limited. However, they’re naming someone in one week so this needs to be addressed right now. https://www.allard4mhcc.com/post/city-hall-rewards-failure “In 2

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Our CAO is Gone But Our Work is Not Yet Done

allardkg

Jan 22, 2022
2 min

Our CAO is Gone But Our Work is Not Yet Done

Our CAO/City Manager announced his retirement yesterday, I am overwhelmed with joy. I like to think that I may have played some small part in this. :) Now that he is officially done, I see no need to post about him any more. My issues with his decisions no longer matter, he will be powerless very very soon. I encourage all others to do the same, let him retire in peace. We won, it’s done. We should be gracious in victory. I don't care what our CAO says about how he decided t

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Our CAO Helped Fund the $830,000 that IMH Spent on Their Office Space

allardkg

Jan 11, 2022
2 min

Our CAO Helped Fund the $830,000 that IMH Spent on Their Office Space

Do You Know How Lavishly Invest Medicine Hat (IMH) Spent on Their Offices? Here’s a hint, you could buy a couple of nice houses with it. Where did the money come from? The CAO Contingency Budget. I wrote about this petty cash before. https://www.allard4mhcc.com/post/how-much-is-your-petty-cash In 2019, the CAO’s $1,000,000 /yr budget for capital projects was slashed to a mere $500k but is scheduled to go back up to a $1,000,000 in 2023. Source 2019-2022 Business Plans Municip

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We Need Background Checks For All Administrative Positions at City Hall

allardkg

Dec 6, 2021
2 min

We Need Background Checks For All Administrative Positions at City Hall

I recently applied to be on the Police Commission (and the Municipal Planning Commission). I must pass a police check to even be considered as a volunteer for the Police Commission. Totally reasonable, you don't want someone with a criminal history on the Police Commission. In the same spirit, you want to make sure people have a good financial history with running businesses before you turn over the key to the vault of public monies. You want to make sure that they have the h

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