Asked is not entirely accurate. Gouged is more apt.
This week the City of Toronto council will introduce and approve it's new budget, one with a provision to hire 1300 more employees and hike property taxes 4%.
One of the positions they intend to create is a "Blackberry Specialist" to look after the burgeoning number of city employees who have Blackberry's. The salary proposed for this Specialist is $84,000 per year. I would suspect a generous benefit package is also attached to this figure.
There are approximately 2000 Blackberry devices amongst city councilors and employees. A Blackberry support specialist would handle problems users are having or will have with the handheld devices.
"There is no boss of all Blackberry's" says Toronto City councilor, Shelley Carroll.
Like many realtors I have a Blackberry also. Mine came with a manual and telephone support from the manufacturer as well as telephone support from the service provider. I'm almost certain that those same support features would have been provided with the 2000 City of Toronto Blackberry's.
I would first of all question why the city needs so many Blackberry's?
Do they really need such a sophisticated device or did someone decide it would just be really "cool"?
Should Toronto Real Estate owners be expected to pay for something the city already has access to, and for free?
What do you think?
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