Ottawa's Night Mayor.. 6+ month review
The Ottawa Night Mayor has been drawing a salary of $112,000/yr. He has been "on the job" since June/July 2024. So now 6+ months into the job. And with an unpaid nightlife council subordinate to him.. What has he done for Ottawa to justify this salary? By what his own social media... He has yet to promote a single event in Ottawa or in English and by the looks of it.. he is still living and working as a nightlife promoter in Montréal. As far as the public is aware he has only hosted a single meeting of his unpaid nightlife council and nothing has come of it or been published from it so far. So I ask the Ottawa public.. Are we okay with our taxes paying a 6 figure salary to a non resident who has yet to justify anything beyond at a single day's worth of work in the last 6 months? Are we out of line to ask for more from this well paid Ottawa public servant to have some sort of stated job responsibilities and publicly disclosed metrics of success. Metrics that if failed to be achieved, will result in dismissal and replacement? I strongly believe that any new public/municipal position at that salary deserves and demands some level of ongoing public scrutiny.