Government Operations committee  It's a little bit hard for me to say because we're all new since May. I think there was some consultation, but not in the way we would have liked it to happen.

Government Operations committee  Yes. We could have worked together on planning the boxes and the maintenance, etc., on whether there was something that maybe the city could have done or provided input on. Obviously, that wasn't done.

Government Operations committee  I consider all of those options as door to door. We live in a city with a lot of rural characteristics. There's downtown concentration and subdivisions, but there are rural parts within city limits where we have farms. All of those different options are considered door to door, i

Government Operations committee  I think everyone has to be efficient. If the service provider gives a quality service, which it's not right now with the implementation of the community mailboxes, it brings other issues and does bring other costs. I'm not sure the savings are real savings if they've changed my b

Government Operations committee  I think it was an open communication, and the city was open. There were certain areas of the city where we already had community mailboxes, in one subdivision, in particular. I think there's openness and communication, but with all the issues that were brought to us by the citize

Government Operations committee  Well, it's working together with other government agencies. Recently, in villages up north.... We have something in New Brunswick called Service New Brunswick, which provides service to the citizens, such as renewing your driver's licence, registration for your car, hunting lic

Government Operations committee  We're all a newly elected council. There's nobody from the past. Having said that, from talking with previous councillors and city management, there seems to have been a lack of communication and collaboration. It's as if we were working in silos.

Government Operations committee  It should go to Canada Post. The target audience with those issues have limited revenues or fixed revenues, and everything is going up. I think it's an essential service. Having said that, the once-a-week pickup would create issues for the elderly, with the medical appointments

Government Operations committee  I think the advantage right now is all the outlets we have in Canada in the rural communities. It's a great network. Adding the service of postal banking is one, and how we can work more closely with our other federal departments, or even provincial departments, to provide certai

Government Operations committee  No, I don't think so. It should be their responsibility. They provide the service and it should be A to Z.

Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  Yes, certainly. In our community, the people who accepted the community mail boxes report all the problems I mentioned with regard to location, safety, lighting, snow removal, winter maintenance, and parking. It would have been helpful if there had been some cooperation and com

Government Operations committee  Not to my knowledge.

Government Operations committee  A sub-contractor is responsible for the maintenance. Actually, the only communication we received was the written message last week informing us that all locks will be changed over coming weeks, in view of the problems we have had. That is a recent message and we did not receive

Government Operations committee  It was in the past year.