Responses to Eddies dumb claim article He is going to be really annoyed now......this is an invite for you to respond Mr. Mayor............. Dennis Radosz · Owner-Operator at Aquariumwindsor Aquaticcentre Everyone is talking about high rates but lets not forget about the outrageous security deposits they nail you with...$2000......$4000.....$5000...etc....and they cannot explain how they calculated those rates......and that is what is killing Windsor business....you have the deposits to pay off along with your already outlandish time of use billing.....these fees are not based on square footage or credit history and are not the same for everyone...some of the smaller businesses have bigger deposits than the larger ones........Ill never forget what the mayor said at the Enwin public meeting....there are no rebates,credits or refunds on deposits under any circumstances with that stern look in his eye.....any shred of respect that was left for that man went right out the window...Windsorites are hard working people and deserve a better respect!! My rant is done now so lets go swimming!! LOL Which pool shall we use??? Cheeers! Reply · Like · 3 · Follow Post · 7 hours ago John Skinner · Top Commenter Thats a huge and important point made there Dennis regarding those deposits. I had forgotten that little puff of wind that came out of the head just a while back. Reply · Unlike · 4 · 6 hours ago Dennis Radosz · Owner-Operator at Aquariumwindsor Aquaticcentre John Skinner it is still killing a number of business....even the Aquatic Centre cant pay its bill....something is way off in this town.... Reply · Like · 2 · 6 hours ago Chris Libby · Top Commenter John Skinner Im afraid that Drew seems like a lock at this point and if so many of the same problems will continue. Reply · Like · 1 · 6 hours ago Stavros Gavrilidis · Follow · Top Commenter · Pharmacist/Owner/Franchisee at T Pharmacy Ltd. o/a Target Pharmacy Windsor I dont think hes a lock. Reply · Like · 1 · 2 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter Dennis Radosz Yes but the Aquatic Centre has an Uncle in the Furniture business I mean at the ENWIN UTILITIES.I am sure those bills will be fudged, miss allocated etc. Fancy shell work so we the taxpaye wont find out what it costs us to run the Aquatic Centre.Also this place is near and dear to the heart of Dilkens so if he becomes mayor it will be business as usual. Reply · Like · about an hour ago David Trombley · Top Commenter Chris Libby even if Drew is a Lock he can do nothing unless the other councillors follow him like sheep. Now it is every ones job to hopefully find the right candidate that will not be led but will lead the people to a better path of prosperity for all not just the business man Reply · Like · 16 seconds ago View 1 more Dennis Radosz · Owner-Operator at Aquariumwindsor Aquaticcentre JUST ONE WORD TO BE SAID----------> AUDIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Reply · Like · 29 · Follow Post · 18 hours ago Dennis Radosz · Owner-Operator at Aquariumwindsor Aquaticcentre KEEP CHASING HIM CANDIDATES AND ALAN .....AND WHEN IN OFFICE UNCOVER THE TRUTH!! https://facebook/photo.php?v=350102211821979 Reply · Like · 17 · Follow Post · Edited · 18 hours ago Charlene Robinson Vidal · Top Commenter Mayor annoyed by ‘dumb claim’ that Enwin administrative costs are too high Hes not worried he can afford to pay this bill with his new job. Wish Enwin would go back the way it was before all this foolishness. Reply · Like · 13 · Follow Post · 18 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter There goes the Desjardins philosopy of Credit Unions. Why they were established, for who, for what. So glad I dont deal with that CU. Reply · Like · 4 · 17 hours ago Jules Champoux · Follow · Sales Manager/Life and Health Advisor at Desjardins Financial Security Independent Network Patricia. ...he is going to WFCU not Caisse Populaire. ....so Im not sure why you would insinuate that Alphonse Desjardins CU is not by the people and for the people? Reply · Like · 2 · 15 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter Jules Champoux The Desjardin philosophy has nothing to do with Desjardin financial. See below and small section of the history of Credit Union. Credit Unions in Canada and a man named Desjardins The first credit union in North America was actually a caisse populaire (or peoples bank) organized in 1900 by a Canadian journalist and legislative reporter, Alfonse Desjardins, in Levis, Quebec. It was in his role as a legislative reporter that Desjardins heard a debate in the House of Commons that changed his life. On April 6, 1897, Montréal-Ste. Anne MP Michael Quinn submitted a bill that would prohibit usurers from charging outrageous interest rates to desperate people. Quinn cited one example whereby a man had to pay $5,000 to cover the cost of a $150 loan taken to save his family from destitution Reply · Like · 6 · 15 hours ago View 3 more Reset Media Ridiculous. The Star and Eddie have no reach to the voters. Matt and gabe are going door to door and speaking directly with the residents who are looking at their excessive EnWin bills each month. Reply · Like · 13 · Follow Post · 17 hours ago Bob Visnjic · Top Commenter · Windsor, Ontario I hear a large sucking sound .... Reply · Like · 7 · Follow Post · 17 hours ago Cheryl Brooks Ford · Top Commenter “Our administrative costs look higher because what we put in our administrative bucket is different than what other people hide in their operations budget,” Francis said. Enwin and Eddie have different buckets???? I think I need a bucket now... Reply · Like · 15 · Follow Post · 17 hours ago Rob Cheshire · St. Clair College The illustrious Mayor is annoyed by the truth Reply · Like · 12 · Edited · 17 hours ago Rob Cheshire · St. Clair College The Ontario Energy Board (O.E.B.) rates Enwin in the bottom 9 of Ontarios power distribution systems.....now...if Eddie wants to dispute that fact he will have to take it up with his Liberal chums at Queens Park. That is a fact from the OEBs Provincial ratings ! Reply · Like · 13 · Edited · 17 hours ago Michelle Oncea · Top Commenter · Windsor, Ontario The illustrious mayor is annoyed that we have the audacity to question him. Reply · Like · 17 · 16 hours ago View 1 more Steward R. Fulford · Top Commenter You want a dumb claim. Eddie? Look at most of your own statements with regard to taxes. Reply · Like · 14 · Follow Post · 17 hours ago Keith Baxter · Top Commenter Why is it so difficult to get correct information to the Windsor public taxpayer on a utility company owned by the Windsor public taxpayer? Reply · Unlike · 24 · Follow Post · 17 hours ago Rob Cheshire · St. Clair College Now thats an excellent question !! Why are the shareholders (Windsorites) not allowed to see the books ??? Eddie has now opened a larger than life can of worms Reply · Unlike · 14 · 17 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter We almost had it!!! The delivery person was Todd Langlois, when he stumbled on something and the mayor went ballistic and called a private meeting with council and brain washed them with accusations about Todd and Todd was fired, paid out and shown the door. HUSH HUSH. Reply · Like · 15 · 17 hours ago Dennis Radosz · Owner-Operator at Aquariumwindsor Aquaticcentre He ran out like a little girl when the tool and mold shop guys confronted him with their bills at the last Enwin public meeting! They stated to him you are our mayor....you are supposed to fight for us! and he replied your fight is up the 401.... Im done That meeting was a complete waste of time!!! Reply · Like · 10 · 16 hours ago Bruce Low · Follow · Top Commenter · Works at Retired It is called ripping the public for their high pay someone needs to to jail Reply · Unlike · 6 · 7 hours ago Bogdan Herbetko · Top Commenter · AR w Szczecinie Patricia I was so exited when he was about to look into those books. Maybe Alan does something before his departure. Reply · Unlike · 5 · 6 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter There he goes again, Eddie the spin master. The audit will reveal all and EVERY councillor will be responsible for the highway robbery of the taxpayer. The shell came right. Shame on all of them. Next clean house and get rid of all Eddies friends running Enwin and taking home million dollar paycheques. Reply · Like · 15 · Follow Post · Edited · 17 hours ago Marc Brode · Top Commenter · Windsor, Ontario How many people at ENWIN are making over a million dollars a year? Do you know? Reply · Like · 2 · 6 hours ago Bogdan Herbetko · Top Commenter · AR w Szczecinie Just curious? Reply · Like · 5 hours ago Marc Brode · Top Commenter · Windsor, Ontario @Bogdan... Arent you? Reply · Like · 1 · 5 hours ago View 3 more Phil Lyons · Top Commenter · St. Clair College OMG the mayor is annoyed, alert the media and batten down the hatches Reply · Like · 12 · Follow Post · 17 hours ago Rob Cheshire · St. Clair College If Mr. Fords claims were so far fetched, or as the Mayor claims: dumb then why is he annoyed by such ? The truth is truth, and Ontarios own O.E.B. rates Enwin at the bottom of the barrel....None of Windsors Hydro customers is fooled by the smoke and mirrors that this present administration has used to mask reality.... Reply · Like · 12 · Follow Post · 17 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter Matt Ford is a thorn in the mayors side nah nah nah nah . If Matt goes on the radio again and Lynn Martin tries to put him down or shut him up everyone call in and jam the lines give a phony reason for call and then ask her if she works for Eddie. Reply · Like · 11 · 17 hours ago Rob Cheshire · St. Clair College The true nature of Eddies Napoleonic complex finally comes out Reply · Like · 3 · 5 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter I am tired of Eddie using money from our Enwin payments for his own personal slush fund. I guess when an accountant sees that; it creates a kafuffle, Todd Langlois did that. Eddie thought the shell game was so good that no one would find it, we need an auditor but at the moment we need a forensic audit on the corporation and Enwin. Eddie fails to acknowledge this is our city our tax dollars he was voted to be mayor not king. I would like to know how many of his buddies will be out of a job come 2015, oh wait if Dilkens and Eddies brother get in they will all stay and continue the frivolous spending and deceit. Reply · Like · 1 · about an hour ago View 1 more Randy MacNevin · Top Commenter · J.L Forster Secondary School It will be such a blessing for this city when Fast Eddie is gone. Then we will have to sort out the result of his damages Reply · Like · 9 · Follow Post · 17 hours ago George John Smith · Top Commenter · Ontario Police College I live in the county & I feel exactly the same way!!!! Reply · Like · 4 · 17 hours ago Jim McDonald Jr. Randy U should move to La Salle Reply · Like · 17 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter But if Dilkens and his Francis jr. get in all will stay the same, all the dept. heads and associates are personal friends. Would I would like to see is the Windsor Star grow some and start writing truth and using facts that are available to them. Ardittis does it why cant they. Reply · Like · about an hour ago Sean Michael Patrick McConnell · Top Commenter · Windsor, Ontario Sure Eddie not all of windsor drinks your kool aid Reply · Like · 6 · Follow Post · 17 hours ago Hank Van Aspert · Owner at Self If the mayor says other costs are included in the enwin report that other municipalities do not include then let us have an audit to prove it Reply · Like · 11 · Follow Post · 17 hours ago Ellen Forte · Windsor, Ontario Im with Halberstadt- Reply · Like · 3 · 6 hours ago Shelley Heydon · Windsor, Ontario Secretary @ Enwin 830-430 75K 4 years on the job...wth nice job Enwin!!! Im a secretary 36 years 36K 8-5 2 weeks vacation. Cant wait for the audit, hope they hired independent auditors from another province! Reply · Like · 7 · Follow Post · 17 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter I would love to see the Enwin administrations salaries I bet they are obscene... in fact I think they are. Reply · Like · 6 · 16 hours ago Cheryl Brooks Ford · Top Commenter Patricia Dow The report was supposed to have those breakdowns but they used YOUR MONEY to hire lawyers to make sure it never sees the light of day. Reply · Like · 8 · Edited · 10 hours ago Shelley Heydon · Windsor, Ontario I saw the proof Patricia in legal court documents. Cant wait for Enwin to be forced to show the consumer the administration costs. Reply · Like · 6 · Follow Post · 16 hours ago Michelle Oncea · Top Commenter · Windsor, Ontario Halberstadt is right, this is a political issue. Why was Todd Langlois fired when he wanted to audit Enwin? Eddie is a spin master, saying cost claims are fiction and the claims about high administration cost are dumb, so prove to us they are not. I for one am not holding my breath that we will know the truth. Reply · Like · 6 · Follow Post · 16 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter Well Halberstadt should have done something when Todd was fired, he listened to Eddie and in the end Todd was gone, no excuses, Halberstadt is a good guy when that happened he failed the people of Windsor. Had he come forward and spoke out to us abot this he could have saved a lot of money. They had to pay Todd a lot of money to go and keep his mouth shut. Lawyers lawyers lawyers, how many are we supporting. Reply · Like · about an hour ago David Trombley · Top Commenter Patricia Dow did not Halberstadt go against the firing of Todd Langlois and also has brought up the issue many times but without all info what can you do. Do you think Enwin and the Mayor would just lay out all the info for Alan to see and others. You can all speculate what happened but the puppets will never speak. Reply · Like · 12 minutes ago Melody Ouellette · Windsor, Ontario well Mayor please explain to everyone why the goverment sells our hydro cheaper to the States there is something really wrong when you take from your own people and give to other counties cheaper.. when people in your own country is struggling to pay there bills they have to make a choice pay hydro or eat...just saying Reply · Like · 8 · Follow Post · 16 hours ago Rob Cheshire · St. Clair College yeah...Accounting is accounting, and math is math !! When a public company owned by the ratepayers is over spending for administrative costs, over charging on delivery fees and paying out higher than average costs to management etc.... There is something wrong! Reply · Like · 10 · Follow Post · 16 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter A few less administrators will fix some money problems. This mayor spends our money like water, pays administration exhorbant salaries and then tries to bust the unions for the rank and file. No benefits, no pensions, no raises. He treats them like slaves while the others get rich. Reply · Like · about an hour ago John Skinner · Top Commenter Just look at the histories.. Tyco, ENRON, A I G, WorldCom, Madoff.. Theyve called it fuzzy math creative accounting... Now we have buckets.. Different sizes of buckets... I didnt see buckets coming, I have to admit. I would have thought that someone with Eds flair for the dramatic would have used a different analogy when in a pinch for spin. But, I guess buckets is now part of the vernacular that well hear pumping out of the talking head until it leaves. Big hats off to Matt Ford & Gabe Maggio for hitting the nail on the head, waking up the dead amongst us and pulling back the curtain on what has been a freak side-show for years. Allan is stepping out of the line up as THE voice for reason here in town. But as it looks, we might be getting a 2 for 1 deal with it. Reply · Like · 11 · Follow Post · 16 hours ago Jason Jost · Top Commenter · Forster High School They are too high for lower income families. And Windsorites wonder why we have such a homeless rate and people cant afford to pay there monthly bills. Reply · Like · 6 · Follow Post · 16 hours ago Chris Schnurr · Top Commenter · Windsor, Ontario So using information published on the Ontario Energy Board website - you know the site the Mayor told residents to go to - is now dumb. So therefore it must now be dumb to go to the Ontario Energy Board for information. Im so confused. Which is it Mayor Francis? Or is it only the numbers you use (the unaudited figures of course), that are correct? Reply · Like · 10 · Follow Post · 16 hours ago Chris Schnurr · Top Commenter · Windsor, Ontario Im tired of chasing conspiracy theories, Francis said. Anyone is free to go to the OEBs website, he said (where you can be buried under applications, hearings and regulatory reviews). (Anne Jarvis, Windsor Star, Sep 26, 2012). Reply · Like · 7 · 16 hours ago Mike Barat · Follow · Top Commenter · William Hands If the mayor is right, should not all cities have the same method reporting cost? How can any city make a accurate comparison if all cities have a different method, of reporting cost? Just throwing that out there, is all. Reply · Like · 4 · Follow Post · 16 hours ago Dan Robinson · St. Clair College I`m wondering if the new building off Central and all the new vecihiles they drive come from us taxpayers. Also if you do the math. My ulitilities went from 155.00 a month to 254.00 a month. Then we are paying a debt charge from every house in the city. Delivery charges are ridiculous. I`ve as a taxpayer been paying this debt charge for over 35 yrs. Please multiply every house in the city times the debt fee and delivery fee also the water fee. That `s over millions a month. One other thing is we get a water usage and water disposable fee. Please explain why the disposable water is more money then the water usage fee. We are getting charged more money to take the water away then the water we are using. How does that work. I don`t think I can pay this months bill. Then they will cut my hydro and water off. I`m a tax payer. And Edwin as a business should carry insurance for there loses from people. Is it true that the mayor is going to be the CEO of edwin after he leaves office. If so, that explains why. Reply · Like · 6 · Follow Post · 16 hours ago Jim Boufford · Attending st clair college Hey Greg Mockler, I can answer that question easy enough -- its name is Eddie !!!!!! Reply · Like · 1 · Follow Post · 15 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter Jules*** The Desjardin philosophy has nothing to do with Desjardin financial. See below and small section of the history of Credit Union. Credit Unions in Canada and a man named Desjardins The first credit union in North America was actually a caisse populaire (or peoples bank) organized in 1900 by a Canadian journalist and legislative reporter, Alfonse Desjardins, in Levis, Quebec. It was in his role as a legislative reporter that Desjardins heard a debate in the House of Commons that changed his life. On April 6, 1897, Montréal-Ste. Anne MP Michael Quinn submitted a bill that would prohibit usurers from charging outrageous interest rates to desperate people. Quinn cited one example whereby a man had to pay $5,000 to cover the cost of a $150 loan taken to save his family from destitution Reply · Like · Follow Post · 15 hours ago Polly Flinders · Top Commenter No Eddie is annoyed because people are fed up and starting to ask the right questions. Just think how annoyed he will be when our new (and improved ) council finally hires an auditor to get to the bottom of Enwin-gate once and for all. Reply · Like · 7 · Follow Post · 14 hours ago Donald Preston · Top Commenter When he debates he,s in controlled environment---I encourage the author to get ahold of his and matt,s on air debate than rewrite this piece.You may also want to look into why the auditor general was fired. Reply · Like · 2 · 14 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter Donald Preston He has the staff of CKLW screening and defending him. Advertising dollars are at stake. Rafi --(sp) auto, Prince Chriopratic, the lebanese restaurant all friends also Lisa Williams is a close friend invited to each others parties etc. Maybe if we got a lot of other non Eddie supporters as well as non Dilkens supporters that advertise on CKLW to pull their contracts CKLW will learn THAT EVERYONES OPINION COUNTS. No need to manipulate the people. Reply · Like · 3 · 3 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter Will council be brow beat into passing the building of the new pool at the WFCU centre? Reply · Like · about an hour ago Mark Boscariol · Following · Top Commenter · Works at Self employed Maybe a better question is why they don`t present administration costs in a way that makes them easily comparable to other cities. Sounds like they brought the ``dumb criticism`` upon themselves Reply · Like · 3 · Follow Post · 14 hours ago Steve Durocher · Top Commenter · St. Clair College Hidden costs, unhidden, this bucket, that bucket, all a sleazy carny shell game to keep the dupes er.. citizens off-balanced and guessing. Bureaucrats tend to bend, stretch and contort their way into masking, hiding and creating illusions that Vegas magicians are all too well familiar with. The name of the game is deception and the goal is to slide one by with no one noticing. Reply · Like · 10 · Follow Post · 13 hours ago Judy Gould · Top Commenter Isnt this rich! Poor Eddie, not a power-point presentation at the ready, forced to resort to buckets and a claim of Enwin using a different kind of math from the rest of the world. Bahaha! And the icing, is asking Alan Halberstadt to explain it! I have tears in my eyes from laughing! Those dummies at the OEB, posted lies on their site? Do they know about these buckets? He used to have Michael Duben there to make up stories to cover Enwins consistent breaking of OEB rules to rob the poor of this city, now he asks Alan? Theres something different in Eddies buckets, alright, -something that the rest of us would flush. Reply · Like · 7 · Follow Post · 13 hours ago Dave West · Top Commenter · Windsor, Ontario Id just like to know what the average household utility bill is across the province. I dont care how the money and the utility company hides, or doesnt hide their costs, bottom line is what does everyone else pay? Those are the numbers I need to see. Reply · Like · 2 · Follow Post · 10 hours ago John Skinner · Top Commenter Dave, you send a message over to Matt Fords campaign website votemattford and Im pretty sure he can link you up with all that info in a jiffy. Reply · Like · 3 · 6 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter The bills have been a bit lower compared to last year due to a cold stretch. So who can we compare ours too, London On?? Reply · Like · 3 hours ago Robert Gray · Follow · Top Commenter if our mayor was HONEST we would have an auditor like every other city .....however ours was fired when he wanted to audit Enwin and the WFCU .....he was fired before he could expose the sham.......SO????? what does that tells about our mayor? Reply · Like · 8 · Follow Post · Edited · 9 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter Did you ever hear of anyone getting the boot so fast, I was in shock, Todd must had some good sh...t he was going to expose. RUNNING SCARED. Reply · Like · 2 · 3 hours ago Ian Wilson · Top Commenter · Works at Retired This is just another typical article where, If Eddie says it, it must be true. Where is the reporters own research into the whole issue? Did the reporter do their own investigation into the number difference between two claims? Did the reporter ask the appropriate questions to gain a true understanding of who is most likely correct? Are there any documents referenced to and linked to, to prove the claims being made? I know other sites where this issue has been discussed provides clear links and easy to understand explanations for what these documents are saying. I’m reading in this particular article a lot of statements without any documentation available to show the said statements to have any merit. Perhaps they do, but I think we’re being left to what I stated earlier, if he says it, it must be true. INDEPENDENT documents support issues such as these and I think there are a number of them out there that tell the story as it really is. Reply · Like · 6 · Follow Post · 9 hours ago Reset Media Ian, the reporter was very argumentative when interviewing Matt. What I would like to know is, how did he find out what was discussed at the board meeting, especially when it pertained to a private citizen? Obviously Eddie leaked this information. He provided quotes for the piece. Reply · Like · 5 · 7 hours ago Ian Wilson · Top Commenter · Works at Retired More unanswered one-sided questions. I too read that the reporter had grilled Matt, hence my wonderment as to why the same wasnt done throughout the entire story, if the story, as I have read it above was to discount others research by only statements, name calling and without alternate facts to back up the contradictory view. I always thought an investigative journalistic report would have both sides thoroughly researched at least to conclude the reporter’s opinion on the facts that they themselves have discovered. Seems like they take one’s word for it, and then automatically discount the opposing view simply by choosing a side. Reply · Like · 5 · 7 hours ago Bruce Low · Follow · Top Commenter · Works at Retired Simple greed over paid administrators. Who gave the green light for this to happen. Full audit. Not one that is going to hide from the public. 98 per cent of administrators are over paid compared to the workers plus all the extra perks. That includes private and public sector management . Sooner or later the public will get fed up with being hosed. The consequences will be dire. Reply · Like · 7 · Follow Post · 9 hours ago Matt Ford · Following · Top Commenter · St. Clair College It must also be noted Ottawa and Cambridge have stand alone water rates. They do not pay LDCs Local Distribution Company (electric) a Management Service Agreement (now called WSA) of $15 million per year to collect water bills. Please explain how a company like ENWIN can report that they bill out under $2 million a year to collect electricity bills when even BEFORE the employees were moved to ENWIN you were billing us $10 million in shared admin costs? These costs are outrageous. Also tell the taxpayers what they are billed for street lighting. The fact is if ENWIN is calling maintenance costs admin costs or operating expenses admin costs this would be a sad state of affairs for residents of Windsor. Reply · Unlike · 8 · Follow Post · 8 hours ago Howard Weeks · Top Commenter · University of Windsor I see this issue as being as just one symptom of the the very problematic way this city is being run. Investigate an issue. Its like turning over a rock. You never know what you will find, but most likely, it wont be good! Reply · Like · 6 · 8 hours ago Sam Drakich · Following · University of Windsor Windsor you must not return any of the incumbents for nothing will change in city hall and Enwin. All boards must be purged to be filled with only citizen volunteers. No elected official can sit on the boards and that no individual with ties to the politicians can also not sit on the boards. To accomplish this we must reinstate the office of the auditor general building the foundation and framework of transparency and accountability.. Candidates challenge the mayor and Enwin, we have good cause. Please read this link and you will agree with us.. blogs.windsorstar/tag/max-zalev Reply · Like · 7 · Follow Post · Edited · 8 hours ago Rick Woods · Top Commenter · St. Clair College Years ago on here I said look no further than the top ...Zalev and his partners in crime also are on the audit committee;like having the wolves looking after us sheep. Reply · Like · 18 minutes ago Matt Ford · Following · Top Commenter · St. Clair College *****Attention folks***** This statement has been removed from the hard print edition. Ford didn’t accept the board’s analysis when it was explained to him later. He said he’ll continue to show people the report that indicates administrative costs for Enwin Utilities was estimated at $213 per customer. That figure is more than double Cambridge and North Dumfries utilities, which had the second highest cost at $105 per customer. thinks that make you go hmmmm. Reply · Like · 6 · Follow Post · 8 hours ago Matt Ford · Following · Top Commenter · St. Clair College ENWIN is in the top 10 utility companies with cost overruns in combined (BUCKETS) administration, maintenance and operating costs. Defining and Measuring Performance of Electricity Transmitters and Distributors ontarioenergyboard.ca/OEB/Industry/Regulatory+Proceedings/Policy+Initiatives+and+Consultations/Renewed+Regulatory+Framework/Measuring+Performance+of+Electricity+Distributors _________case closed____________ Reply · Like · 5 · Follow Post · 8 hours ago Karl Schwarzpech · Top Commenter · St. Clair College $213 per customer administrative costs? How so, thats more than my entire bill, and we use a lot of electricity at my house. Im all for disclosure and accountability, but these want to bes need to be more careful with what they throw out unless theyve got some actual facts. Id prefer to get my facts in an orderly fashion and not in this kind of disorderly way. Reply · Like · Follow Post · 8 hours ago Reset Media You mean actual facts like the report from the OEB? The same numbers that were provided to the OEB by EnWin? Give it a rest. Reply · Like · 4 · 7 hours ago Donald Preston · Top Commenter annual rate 213!!!------- Reply · Like · 7 hours ago Chris Schnurr · Top Commenter · Windsor, Ontario Was just going to say that Reset. Two words for Karl Schwarzpech - cognitive dissonance. Reply · Like · 4 · 6 hours ago View 3 more Rick Joyce Hutnik · Top Commenter do other utilities have THREE boards ?????? Reply · Like · 2 · Follow Post · 7 hours ago Martin Odber · Top Commenter So.. all sleight of hand aside.. if we were to rearrange Enwins costs to fit the Mearie group comparison profile just where would things stand? ( if sliding the operational costs to the administrative makes the administrative look higher, then surely when we tout that the operational costs are lower $45/customer then that figure is comparatively skewed as well in relation to other communities) Reply · Like · 2 · Follow Post · 7 hours ago Wayne Laliberte · Top Commenter I concede that I was once an Eddie Francis supporter. He seemed like a breath of fresh air when he first took office.During his first term he appeared to be steering Windsor back on to the path of fiscal responsibility. He impressed me as a man of integrity, but somewhere along the line (perhaps the entire time) he veered toward secrecy and stonewalling valid queries from council and the public. The Windsor Star enabled Mr. Francis by acting as his personal P.R., allowing him to further his ego, and mitigate his genuine disdain and outright contempt for dissent. This newspaper has blood on its hands, and should be ashamed by their actions. The lack of true journalism is appalling. If the editorial staff had been doing their job, maybe the Mayors true persona and agenda wouldve been exposed years ago. Its only now that so many of his nefarious exploits are coming to light. Before, all we had was gossip, rumour, and innuendo. When we finally get an audit that fully reveals Enwins finances, among other issues, only then can we put this behind us and move forward. I only hope that The Windsor Star reports any findings or malfeasance (if found), without their rose coloured Eddie Francis glasses as has been the norm for far too long. We deserve answers, and we deserve a responsive and honest leader. What we dont want is another just trust me Mayor. Thank-you for your time. Reply · Like · 5 · Follow Post · 6 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter Wayne that was awesome. You are so correct and I can relate to you and your feelings about Francis. The statement above is one all candidates should use for their mission statement. Thank you for your insight. Please stay involved. Reply · Like · about an hour ago Tammy Lynn Belanger · Top Commenter Ive been paying Enwin for years as a homeowner. I can remember being billed every two months and it was way cheaper back then !!! Now we are being billed every month and the costs have gone through the roof. With those new meters they have installed, I dont appreciate them at all either. I run a beauty shop in my house and I have to run hydro, water, my central air & I am dinged for costs that I have no choice to run things at peak times,......a huge rip off ! Yes I use a portion as a write off, but what I get out of it is a drop in the bucket. Can I have the bucket that Enwin & Eddie have, I might fair better. Dont care what Eddie says, those costs are outrageously ridiculous. Go back to the old way of billing and lower those costs, instead of raping the taxpaying public. Reply · Like · 3 · Follow Post · 5 hours ago Tammy Lynn Belanger · Top Commenter Never before when I received my hydro bill ( bi monthly) was there a list of services attached to the actual cost of your usage of hydro & water. Now we are dinged with all the additional costs listed below,....hydro,sewage, water, delivery charges, regulatory charges, debt retirement charges, global adjustment charges. meter fixed charge, water usage water main replacement levy, waste water fixed components. All these charges added to our bills, never used to be there before, our bills were pretty straight forward, hydro usage & water, and it was cheaper back then.They obviously trickled all the added costs on to backs of the taxpaying public,for these services. Then they raise our property taxes to boot !!! If we are paying out so much for these added services now implemented down on the backs of taxpayers, what are they doin... See More Reply · Like · 3 · Follow Post · 5 hours ago Barrie Christou · Top Commenter Honestly i think edwin should be investigated to the max . They have been dodging the bullit for way too long and i bet they have some very good stuff hidden and we are the ones paying for it. I cant wait till Eddie is gone and this new city counsel is in i am hoping some changes are going to be made. Its pretty bad when i pay more for water the electricity Reply · Like · 2 · Follow Post · 4 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter Enwin is Eddies personal piggy bank. God help the members of the WFCU credit union when he starts to work there, members will have to pay to members, pay to open an account, pay per month to be member then add all the other usual charges that no doubt will be raised. There will be a board of directors hand picked (not voted legally) to be the people that will always say yes to Eddie and do what ever he says. He already has them brainwashed. Reply · Like · 1 · about an hour ago James Tilley Sr. · Top Commenter · Works at Retired Mayor Eddie Kilpatrick.........Hmmmmm! Sounds like someone else we know who WAS a Mayor! Like his ex Detroit counterpart......A master of bull@#!*. Reply · Like · 1 · Follow Post · 4 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter Birds of a feather............................ Reply · Like · about an hour ago Reset Media I am guessing that this article didnt quite go the way that Eddie wanted it to. Reply · Like · 2 · Follow Post · 4 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter LOL LOL Reply · Like · about an hour ago Mike Spencer · Top Commenter Forget Enwin for a minute. Someone needs to track the money straight from the plant to Windsor homes. What are the true operating costs including labor and operations. Who are the skimmers and pirates along the way. Enwin is a vicious predatory company who charges late fees in advance so we know already they are crooked but who else is being crooked along the way? Whats the true cost of treating waste? How much do the employees make and are their wages commeasuring with Enwin rate increases? There are lots of ways to find things out, without having to ask the criminals to tell. The business heads and political corporate whores will never divulge their dishonesty willingly. Start with treatment plant. How many employees. How much and what kind of chemicals and their costs. How much for maintenance and repairs (The devil may be in those details). Is the building and property paid for or did the Corporation of the City of Windsor sell or lease it? Find the entire cost of everything and then pick it apart until you find what it really cost and then have Dalton McGuinty deported back to Canada for trial. Reply · Like · Follow Post · 3 hours ago Patricia Dow · Top Commenter Come on we have some digruntled retired Enwin people out there, set up another name, send private messages let us really know the truth. Reply · Like · 1 · about an hour ago Mike Spencer · Top Commenter Its true, within every corporate entity there are one or two people who still have a conscience. Reply · Like · 43 minutes ago Tammy Lynn Belanger · Top Commenter sorry Mike,.....off topic here. Just joined your group WSIB (SOB) kills people. My late husband died too, from a stress related heart attack at the hands of his adjudicator, the lovely Patti Leclair, who abruptly cut him off and told him to get back to work !!! Heartless people indeed. I have since remarried and moved on, but will never forget what they did for sure !!! Reply · Like · 18 minutes ago Mike Spencer · Top Commenter You want to know where much of that money that Enwin reaps off your dinner tables goes? Check their vendor list. Reply · Like · 2 · Follow Post · 3 hours ago Grant Hamilton · Top Commenter · St. Clair College OK, now everyone SHUT UP. The great and powerful Eddie has spoken! Reply · Like · 1 · Follow Post · 2 hours ago Sparky Ford · Top Commenter · Works at Valiant Machine & Tool Boo hoo the mayor is annoyed we are annoyed at the mayor Reply · Like · Follow Post · 2 hours ago Robert Tatomir · Follow · Top Commenter · Broker of Record at Future Homes & Real Estate Ltd. Enwin users must demand an Independent 3rd. party audit! Reply · Like · 1 · Follow Post · about an hour ago Derek Haas · Windsor, Ontario if they make more than 50,000 year we should no why they make that much!!!!and the rest of us suffer Reply · Like · Follow Post · about an hour ago Mike Spencer · Top Commenter An audit is great but who needs one when anyone of us can find out how much operating costs are, how much vendors are paid and if tendering laws are followed verses how much each corporation rakes in from billing all the way down the line. An audit will name the culprits and directors of the money but we have to start at the beginning to see exactly how much hydro and everything tacked to it really costs because we have been lied to about it. Reply · Like · Follow Post · Edited · 34 minutes ago Phil Taylor · Top Commenter · Works at Retired Eddie should be annoyed since he sits on 3 Enwin boards and has made a nice part of his bloated salary from it.Whiile regular citizens have been ripped off by this utility Eddie has taken good care of Eddie. Reply · Like · 1 · Follow Post · 32 minutes ago Mike Spencer · Top Commenter I can remember people complaining back in 1975 about their hydro bills which came every two months being around $50 and how outrageous that was. Now people are paying $300-$500 per month or more for the same damn thing. What happened between now and then? Ill tell you what happened. You were all smoozed by businessmen/women politicians who promised you they would run government like a business and be fiscally responsible. Well they kept part of that promise and went a step further and turned your governments into a business and made you all their personal employees and property and you all helped them do it! They havent screwed YOU! YOU screwed YOU by enabling THEM!. Remember that next time you vote if your not too lazy to do it! Reply · Like · Follow Post · 19 minutes ago Facebook social plugin ELECTION QUESTIONS 2014 Alright candidates!! This is your ICE BREAKER challenge!! With Windsor politics on everyones mind these days we are hearing people asking questions,voicing concerns, and creating theories day in and day out............they are se... See More — with Sam Drakich and 38 others.
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