Windsor Is Only A Small Town, Really

By Ed Arditti

I know that the Mayor likes to throw around the word “world-class” whenever he has one of his mind’s eye visions. I guess it makes him feel good to do so thinking that he actually might live in a big city rather than in a town with a population that is probably around 200,000 or even less now with all the unemployed people who moved out of here looking for jobs elsewhere.

Of course, when he comes up with one of these ideas, the Star Columnists have to compare us with all of the locations around the world to make us feel good that we are spending so much money on these white elephants rather than using it for silly things like roads and sewers and watermains.

I wanted to do a Blog about why Dwight Duncan, Deputy Premier/Minister of Finance and one of the two MPPs for Windsor, has been invisible on the Auditor General Termination fiasco. Ultimately, whether he wants to or not, he’s going to get dragged into it. I wanted to try to explain why he is not out in front of this matter rather than being forced to react to it down the road.

http://www.windsorsquare.ca/2012/03/windsor-is-only-a-small-town-really/

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Zalev and the A-word

By Anne Jarvis

Audits? What audits? If I had a nickel for every time Max Zalev told me “Enwin is audited all the time,” I’d be rich.

Zalev has told me this so many times that it should be the corporation’s new slogan, carved above the entrance to its building on Ouellette Avenue, emblazoned on its trucks criss-crossing the city, stamped at the top of my monthly bill, which I send to my accountant to decipher.

Zalev, of course, is chairman of Windsor’s audit committee and CEO of Enwin Utilities, which is owned by the city. (Lots of people think that’s a conflict of interest.)

Here, straight from my notes, for the record, is what Zalev has said.

http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Jarvis+Zalev+word/6275238/story.html

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Enwin never had detailed audit: OEB

Board counters claims of Zalev, Francis

By Dave Battagello

WINDSOR, Ont. — The Ontario Energy Board says it has never performed a detailed audit of Enwin Utilities nor undertaken a “value for money” investigation.

“It’s not our mandate, it’s not what we do,” said Sylvia Kovesfalvi, acting manager of communications for the province’s energy board.

Enwin CEO Max Zalev and Mayor Eddie Francis say there is no need for the city’s internal audit department to dig deeper into the city’s utility company because it is thoroughly audited by the OEB.

The issue arose following the firing of the city’s auditor general, Todd Langlois, who alleges that among the reasons for his termination was his desire to audit Enwin.

Langlois has launched a $2.4-million wrongful dismissal lawsuit against the city.

An auditor general can undertake a value-for-money audit which can assess the effectiveness and efficiency in the way money is spent. That differs from regulatory or financial audits which focus on compliance, taxation and the accuracy of financial statements.

The mayor has repeatedly indicated anyone is welcomed to audit Enwin, but he added the cost would be huge and a waste since OEB “has auditors who come in” to study the balance sheets.

http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Enwin+never+detailed+audit/6275239/story.html

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TAMA Demands: Open the Books At Enwin/WUC

By Ed Arditti

You have two choices on Saturday morning. Sleep in or join up with your fellow Windsorites. Just keep on reading

Hip, hip, hooray!

The Star finally did an Editorial on the stink that one can smell all over the City. No, not about the Langlois affair and the lack of audit of WUC/Enwin but about skunks. Now that is the kind of hard-hitting, relevant, up-to-the-minute, decisive, public spirited journalism that Paul Godfrey obviously wants for his Postmedia newspapers.

Oh me, oh my. And here I was thinking that I was protected by the Ontario Energy Board who did all these high-priced audits on Enwin according to our Leaders.

Turns out, if one reads Annie and Dave Battagello in the Star today, that this is not so.

http://www.windsorsquare.ca/2012/03/tama-demands-open-the-books-at-enwinwuc/

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Is The City Of Windsor Hiding Something

By Ed Arditti

Slowly but surely the rights of citizens are being eaten away. Secrecy above all has become the rule in Windsor.

I must admit I don’t understand the reason for it all. It really isn’t all that complicated running a town the size of Windsor. Why is there the need to keep so much information away from us?

Are our Leaders so afraid that we cannot handle the truth? Are they keeping away the truth from us because it would be so horrific for us to know? Or could it be something worse or at least something that can give rise to such a concern?

This is not an academic concern. The last thing that we need in this City at this time is to be distracted. Yet we are. The Langlois affair is a disgrace. And then I read Council Halberstadt’s Blog today and was extremely disgusted. I’ll talk about it later.

I found this commentary in the Detroit Metro Times very interesting:

http://www.windsorsquare.ca/2012/03/is-the-city-of-windsor-hiding-something/

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Ontario ratepayers subsidize taxpayers

(November 15, 2011) Ontario ratepayers are helping to hold down municipal taxes and the provincial debt, writes Energy Probe director Parker Gallant.

By Parker Gallant

The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) requires the 80 local distribution companies (LDC) in Ontario to send detailed financial and ratepayer information annually and OEB assembles it in the “Yearbook of Electricity Distributors”. The information is presented in a consolidated and individual basis so viewing it provides a myriad of facts including statistics on the number of kWh purchased, km of overhead lines, etc. It gives collective and individual average delivery costs per customer and a financial picture of each LDC. As an example, Hydro One’s distribution arm collected an average of $949 per customer (year ended December 31, 2010) for “delivery” of electricity whereas clients of Kitchener-Wilmot Hydro ($423) or Toronto Hydro ($752) paid less. Capital expenditures made by your local utility company are also included.

On the latter point Hydro One increased annual capital expenditures from 2005 by $406 million (+142% ) to $574.00 per customer. The other 79 LDCs increased capital spending by $583 million (+91%) to $310 per customer. A major portion of those expenditures reflect the installation of “smart meters” ($2 billion + or -) but why Hydro One’s expenditures are so much more is not explained. Hydro One’s spending does not include capital spending for transmission builds associated with renewable connections such as the Bruce to Milton line at a cost of $700 million.

Why it costs a Hydro One ratepayer 124% more and a Toronto Hydro ratepayer 77% more for delivery then a Kitchener-Wilmot ratepayer calls for an explanation and an examination however, this issue doesn’t receive attention from our political leaders in either provincial or municipal politics. It also doesn’t appear to be a part of the OEB regulatory process except peripherally in setting the allowed Return on Equity formulae.

http://ep.probeinternational.org/2011/11/15/ontario-ratepayers-subsidize-taxpayers/

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Yearbook of Electricity Distributors and Yearbook of Natural Gas Distributors

This is Google’s cache of http://www.ontarioenergyboard.ca/OEB/Industry/Rules+and+Requirements/Reporting+and+Record+Keeping+Requirements/Yearbook+of+Distributors. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 13 Feb 2012 18:28:22 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime. Learn more

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RRR Reports

Yearbook of Electricity Distributors and Yearbook of Natural Gas Distributors

The Yearbooks of Electricity Distributors and Yearbooks of Natural Gas Distributors provide interested parties and the general public with financial and operational information collected from distributors. Information presented in the Yearbooks is compiled from data submitted through the Reporting and Record–Keeping Requirements.

ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTOR YEARBOOKS
Date	Document
Aug 29-11	Yearbook of Electricity Distributors: 2010 (.pdf) 2010 (.xls)
Aug 25-10	Yearbook of Electricity Distributors: 2009 (.pdf) 2009 (.xls)
Sep 10-09	Yearbook of Electricity Distributors: 2008 (.pdf) 2008 (.xls)
Aug 26-08	Yearbook of Electricity Distributors: 2007 (.pdf) 2007 (.xls)
Aug 31-07	Yearbook of Electricity Distributors: 2006 (.pdf) 2006 (.xls)
Mar 29-07	Yearbook of Electricity Distributors: 2005 (.pdf) 2005 (.xls)

NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTOR YEARBOOKS
Date	Document
Aug 29-11	Yearbook of Natural Gas Distributors: 2010 (.pdf) 2010 (.xls)
Aug 25-10	Yearbook of Natural Gas Distributors: 2009 (.pdf) 2009 (.xls)
Sep 10-09	Yearbook of Natural Gas Distributors: 2008 (.pdf) 2008 (.xls)
Aug 26-08	Yearbook of Natural Gas Distributors: 2007 (.pdf) 2007 (.xls)
Aug 31-07	Yearbook of Natural Gas Distributors: 2006 (.pdf) 2006 (.xls)
Mar 29-07	Yearbook of Natural Gas Distributors: 2005 (.pdf) 2005 (.xls)

Page last updated 2011-11-14

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Zalev’s Finger Remains In Enwin Dike

By: Alan Halberstadt | February 10, 2012

On Feb. 2, at a press conference called by Todd Langlois after he was dismissed as Auditor General by Mayor Francis and City Council, much was said about Langlois being blocked from opening the books at Enwin Utilities.

“My client had legitimate and reasonable concerns about the chairmanship of the Audit Committee,” said Langlois’ lawyer Jim Cooke. “It is chaired by the current CEO of Enwin. And as there was a dispute with the Mayor, about whether Enwin was subject to audit by my client, there was a possibility of, at the least, an appearance of conflict given the dual roles of the chair of the audit committee.

It was perhaps fitting that all of this unfolded on Groudhog Day. I know better than most that history is repeating itself. Here is my tale.

In January of 2011, in one of my last acts as a member of the Audit Committee charged with overseeing the city’s Auditor General’s Office, I proposed at a public meeting that an audit of Enwin Canada Limited and the Windsor Utilities Commission (WUC) be conducted.

Following is my reasoning, as submitted in writing to lead auditor Angela Berry, with a verbal proposal delivered subsequently to the committee:

http://alanhalberstadt.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/zalevs-finger-remains-in-enwin-dike/

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Get rid of Enwin and Energy Board

06 Jan 2012 Get rid of Enwin and Energy Board

So, Enwin says we are conserving too much energy and there is no one competent there to figure out how much corporate tax they owe so they’re going to raise our bills.

http://www.windsorstar.com/technology/Enwin+Energy+Board/5955153/story.html

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Crying Wolf(son) At Enwin

03 Jan 2012 Crying Wolf(son) At Enwin

It’s a brand new year and yet another brand new “crisis” with EnWin Utilities crying Wolfson.

http://www.windsorsquare.ca/2012/01/03/crying-wolfson-at-enwin/

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