<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>I removed all direct references to individuals before sending to Brenda. She needs to hear how upset people are. Hope this is not a problem for anyone. If so, please suggest a better way to get the message across to her.</div><div><br></div><div>Robert M</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Robert Milligan <<a href="mailto:mill@continuum.org">mill@continuum.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">February 24, 2011 10:32:20 PM GMT-05:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Mayor Brenda Halloran <<a href="mailto:bhalloran@city.waterloo.on.ca">bhalloran@city.waterloo.on.ca</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Fwd: [All] Fw: Strategic Plan consultation: the most shameful and stupidest I've ever attended.</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Brenda,<div><br></div><div>FYI. I think you need to greatly improve the process of your "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b>Strategic Plan consultations</b></span>".</div><div>And maybe you need to re-do them with that improved process. Is there an unedited video tape of the Consultations so you can see for yourself? Do you have a carpet and coals in your office?</div><div><br></div><div>Robert</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From:</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">February 24, 2011 9:35:01 PM GMT-05:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"GREN" <<a href="mailto:all@gren.ca">all@gren.ca</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[All] Fw: Strategic Plan consultation: the most shameful and stupidest I've ever attended.</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font face="Arial" size="2">At my Bridge game today I spoke with a Waterloo gal who attended one of the meetings and she, thinking I knew nothing about it, stated exactly what **** felt about the manipulation of the proposed outcome by way of 'controlling' the response. In her group were 2 or 3 very knowledgable and experienced retired city folks who were as mad as **** at this control and limiting of answers. We all know that data folks can 'skewer' any numbers and opinions they choose to this way. I asked if anyone or two people walked out and she didn't see; so it must have been at a different meeting : same response of manipulation as you</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">had ****. And we pay these out of town folks to stuff our opinions right back in our faces, gotta be a change soon. ******</font></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><br><div style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><div style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="all@gren.ca" href="mailto:all@gren.ca">* GREN</a></div><div><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:38 PM</div><div><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [All] Strategic Plan consultation: the most shameful and stupidest I've ever attended.</div></div><div><br></div>Maybe GREN can issue a press release on the Consultant Approach to community involvement OR ? And to think that taxpayers pay for this manipulative bullshit! This is not democracy but elected dictators playing control games through their agent consultants (& relatives).<div>******* *</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 23-Feb-11, at 5:08 PM, ******** wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0px; font: normal normal normal medium/normal Helvetica; text-transform: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div fpstyle="1" ocsi="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial">OMG **** this is exactly what happened at the Kitchener parks so-called" open round table" discussions? with the out of town parks consultant " Fred Galloway" from London;brother to Tom Galloway. We were made to name ONLY ONE on the list of needs and priorities and when questioned about this limitation,like a BULLY , he kept saying "No not 2 not 3 ONLY ONE." ***** and **** and ******* and many of us were angry and should have ALL walked out. </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">They will not allow freedom of choice or multiple choice in degrees because then those bullies lose control. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">I have an old friend from long ago who was in high upper management (long gone now) and he gave me the best definition of a "Consultant" that I've ever heard.....and there are very few for whom I have gleaned any respect because most don't know a pittance about the subject they "consult on" especially in another community. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">My friend told me that "A consultant is a guy who borrows<strong> your</strong> watch to tell you what time it is ". </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Yes, that means he picks the brains of those in the know or aught to be; finds out what answers they want to 'reach?' and then takes charge to do it come Hell or High Water over the backs of the common folks.</span></div><div><font face="Arial">He was dead on for 90% of the ones I've met or had to tolerate. Kinda like "Them that can't-- Consults" ******</font></div><blockquote style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; margin-right: 0px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:30 PM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [All] Strategic Plan consultation: the most shameful and stupidest I've ever attended.</div><div><br></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; ">Re: Waterloo strategic plan consultations. I went last night -- and walked out. We were put in small groups - only 4 in mine. We talked productively about our visions and hopes for Waterloo for about an hour, and then each of the 3 groups gave short summaries. Before there was any chance for us to comment on the ideas coming from the other groups, the hired consultants swung into action. We were each handed a gizmo that looked like a remote control for a tv. Then they started explaining that we were to compare the "6 pillars" (eg, environment, economic) of the strategic plan to each other. Since there were 6 pillars, that made 15 possible combinations (eg 1+2, 1+3, 1+4...3+4, 3+5 etc.). The gizmo allowed us to pick which of each pair we favoured and rank on a score of 1-10. And instantly it all would get added up and we would know what mattered most! I put up my hand and asked what that was supposed to prove: they cut us off from productive group interaction and were reducing us to individuals in a secret ballot voting at the same time for something and against another. I mentioned how the School Board at a big public consultation after the Harris cuts tried to do the same thing: they tried to lure 200 people by giving each of us 3 votes to select our favourite things from a list of about 20 (eg, outdoor ed, special ed, music) so that they would know what to cut. I spoke out and said that we needed all these things in an educational system, and chopping any of them would be like hacking off the leg or ears or liver of a body and expecting it to still function. Now we were doing the same thing again. The consultants just bulldozed me aside and kept on going. I walked out and was joined by only one other person.<div><br></div><div>So if you go - don't be afraid to challenge such shenanigans. Insist that you came to talk together and interact, not generate a bunch of numbers using gee-whiz technology. Tell them that this is not public consultation but a shell game, and they should be ashamed of themselves</div><div>- ****** ********<br><div style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><div id="divRpF212086" style="direction: ltr; "><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></span></blockquote></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0px; font: normal normal normal medium/normal Helvetica; text-transform: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div fpstyle="1" ocsi="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><blockquote style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; margin-right: 0px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; "><div><div style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><div id="divRpF212086" style="direction: ltr; "><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><b>From:</b><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, February 23, 2011 2:48 PM<br><b>To:</b><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[All] Strategic Plan, Nuclear not profitable and Tar Sands update<br></font><br></div><div></div><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><font size="3">Hello folks<br><br>Here's the latest<br><br style="font-weight: bold; "><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Waterloo Strategic Plan</span><br>Tonight is the last evening where Waterloo residents can participate in a workshop regarding the Strategic Plan. The meeting starts at 6:30 at Forbes room at RIM Park.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br><br>Etc.<br></span><br><br><b><br></b></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></span></blockquote></div></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>