No paper trail in AG’s firing
Mayor, staff tell council Todd Langlois was ‘rude’
By Dave Battagello, The Windsor Star February 17, 2012
WINDSOR, Ont. — City councillors were packing up and ready to go home after a two-hour council meeting Jan. 30, when Mayor Eddie Francis summoned them to an impromptu closed-door meeting.
There had been no public notice of the in-camera gathering, but Francis told them he needed to talk to them about a “personnel matter.” Councillors voted to waive the procedural bylaw, which requires written notice if council intends to meet behind closed doors.
They walked into a room behind council chambers and, when they were seated, Francis dropped the bomb.
He told them there was a “big problem” with the new auditor general, Todd Langlois, appointed only nine months earlier after an exhaustive three-year search, and it had to be addressed immediately.
For some councillors in the room — five of whom spoke to The Star on the condition of anonymity — it was the first time they heard any concerns about Langlois or his job performance.
“The mayor started the conversation noting concerns (about Langlois) from the audit committee,” one councillor said.
The word “rude” was used to describe Langlois. Francis also told councillors that Langlois was rough with staff and that it was “cause for concern.” They were told he couldn’t get along with senior administrators and that he attempted to circumvent them.
Less than two weeks earlier, Langlois had submitted a proposed three-year work plan, which included audits of city-owned utilities company Enwin, the Windsor Utilities Commission, the newly built WFCU Centre, and virtually every major department at city hall. But none of that was mentioned to the councillors.
Francis also told councillors that Langlois failed to follow their direction to outsource the auditor general’s office.
But councillors were never told about a report that Langlois had written and submitted Jan. 9 outlining the pros and cons of outsourcing the auditor general’s office.
http://www.windsorstar.com/news/paperwork+backed+firing/6165648/story.html
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