The Chief Administrative Officer of Metro Vancouver has spoken for the first time since Global News broke the story about chaos in the organization’s leadership.
The Board of Metro Vancouver then claimed it was launching an investigation into the “leaked” information and might even hire a private investigator.
Jerry Dobrovolny was at Friday’s Vancouver Board of Trade meeting and said that it shouldn’t be phrased as a leak.
“You know, laws may have been broken, and so that’s what we’re looking at,” he said.
Dobrovolny said he couldn’t comment on a private investigator and that it was “driven by the board.”
Dobrovolny refused to say how much taxpayer money might be used to hunt for an alleged whistleblower. However, he claimed “transparency” about who’s running the organization has been expensive.
“So I think taxpayers should be concerned about the laws being followed, rules being followed,” he added.
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“I think that’s important. And there’s been considerable cost, hundreds of thousands of dollars of cost to the organization as a result.”
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When asked to explain how a “leak” of information might have cost the organization, Dobrovolny said he would not explain it at this point.
Dobrovolny failed to mention that his suspension of Chief Financial Officer Harji Varn overstepped his authority, setting in motion a series of costly problems.
“Let’s be clear about transparency,” he said on Friday.
“We did a governance review. And Deloitte, who did the governance review, said that Metro is one of the most transparent organizations that it works with. Our information is posted and it is available. And I really wish organizations would use the information that’s available.”
Metro Vancouver has since emailed Global News to say that, “The amount stated by our CAO today was speculative.”
Dobrovolny hire private investigator just like Eby spend spend spend spend then penalize and tax the hell out of us low income living on the street in food bank lineups why are the people putting up with this corruption have country general strike and recinde these taxes
It was Eby, He gave me all this info so I shared it with Andrew mountbatten windsor and everything went south after Eby
We deserve answers we are paying there wages.
this whole metro board is a tax payer scam, over payed clown doing nothing,
Disgusting pig public trough dwellers.