If transparency, accountability, and oversight are the metrics of Lyn Hall’s two terms as the mayor of Prince George, his eight years leading local government were a dismal failure.
Unfortunately, the emails also revealed that Soltis didn’t want to publicly reveal the city’s subsidization of the project and Hall deferred to her, establishing a pattern of hiding public spending that would come to a head years later with the George Street parkade fiasco and the eventual departure of Soltis as city manager.
The seeds for Hall’s disastrous second term were being sewn in the summer of 2018 at the same time the senior staff pay scandal went public. Soltis sent an email to Hall in early July giving him a “heads up” about possible budget problems with the parkade, under construction to accompany the first phase of the Park House condo project. Hall never replied to the email.
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