City of Toronto taxpayers were charged to prune and water dead or non-existent trees, the auditor general has found.
Auditor General Beverly Romeo-Beehler reveals her findings of a value-for-money audit of the city’s urban forestry program, including an estimate that taxpayers lost about $2.6 million worth of productivity, in a report to the Friday meeting of the city’s Audit Committee.
A comparison of GPS data to daily logs filled out by private contractors revealed huge gaps in time where their vehicle was parked at restaurants, coffee shops, residential houses, a cemetery, schools, a shopping centre or just driving around or parked nowhere near city trees that needed maintenance, the report says.
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