The MPP for Welland is supporting Lincoln Regional Councillor and NPCA Board Member Bill Hodgson.
We told you yesterday that Hodgson has been censured by the NPCA board following what the Board Chair called a tainted RFP process.
At Queen's Park today, Cindy Forster declared her support for Hodgson saying he is being bullied and was censured by the board because he dared to express legitimate and valid concerns about a questionable RFP.
She says the community has raised serious concerns about the board’s lack of operational accountability and financial transparency.
Forster says the Auditor General intervened, offering an impartial audit, one the board declined.
She says perhaps fearful of what the AG may uncover, the board issued its own RFP, except it reported back to the very people it was supposed to be auditing.
She says the public called foul; Councillor Hodgson did what was right: He questioned it. The NPCA retracted the RFP and decided to go back to the AG.
Forster says it’s clear that the NPCA board chair, Sandy Annunziata, in an attempt to cover up his and some of his board members’ own actions, will stop at no end to silence anyone who seemed to disagree.
She says she's not alone with her belief, that the majority of elected municipal officials are fed up.
She says it’s time for the government to appoint a supervisor to oversee the NPCA.