Linton Consulting Services Inc, consists of 2 managing partners and 3 other staff.<\/p>\n
In its accepted proposal, Linton outlined its planned work time over 3 phases of the consultation process. Phase one was scheduled to run from January 2024 to February 2024 (1 month). Phase two was scheduled to run from February 2024 to April 2024 (2 months). Phase 3 was scheduled to run from April to mid-May 2024 (1 \u00bd months). That’s a total of about 20 weeks from start to the final report and other”deliverables” are completed. But not all of those weeks, and not all of those days are committed to Wilmot. Linton also has other contracts in other jurisdictions which they are executing simultaneously.<\/p>\n
Linton provided further work plan details by breaking down each pages into who would be be active, doing what, and for how long.<\/p>\n
Phase 1<\/span>: Duration = 1 week \/ Linton = 3 days \/ CAO = 2 hours<\/p>\n Phase 2<\/span>: Duration = 8 weeks \/ Linton = 11 days \/ Council = 9 hours, CAO & Senior Team = 12 hours, Staff = 15 minutes each<\/p>\n Phase 3<\/span>: Duration = 6 weeks \/ Linton = 8 days \/ Council = 2 hours, CAO = 5 hours, Senior Team = 3 hours<\/p>\n Let’s add it up: Linton committed 22 days \/ Council = 11 hours \/ CAO and staff = 22 hours + 15 minutes for each staff.<\/p>\n Remember that the CAO, the Senior Team, staff are being paid by citizens anyway. Council is getting their honorarium anyway.<\/p>\n The consultant committed to 22 days, and all members of the Township’s paid staff committed to 22+ hours.<\/p>\n Tell me again, with detail how the Township staff does not have enough resources (people and time) to fit this project in over 20 weeks just as LInton did.<\/p>\n It appears, by the numbers, that the Township has the time, and it has the people time. Maybe the Township does not have appropriately skilled people in the required locations? Would Professional Development, learning from this process, address that potential issue? Once they know, can we do it internally in future and save ourselves $46,104 + inflation in 2028?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Linton Consulting Services Inc, consists of 2 managing partners and 3 other staff. In its accepted proposal, Linton outlined its planned work time over 3 phases of the consultation process. Phase one was scheduled to run from January 2024 to February 2024 (1 month). Phase two was scheduled to run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6030,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6175","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6180,"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6175\/revisions\/6180"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Therefore, the consultant has 5 employees and the CAO’s office has 6.0 FTE staff. Of that 6.0, 1.0 is dedicated to “Communications and Strategic Initiatives”. That’s a full-time position, 35 hours a week. How many weeks of work in a year? Why is it impossible to manage staff time, over a period of 20+ weeks, to organize and execute a project with the existing resources in place already? Maybe the<\/span> CAO has a valid answer? <\/span><\/strong>Maybe Council has an answer? Maybe Council needs to ask the question again, with a closer focus on specifics and rational detail?<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n