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Gina Garon

Current Councillor, seeking re-election.

From the City of Prince Rupert website: “Councillor Gina Garon is the proprietor of Blue Heron Enterprises, since 1983 a local custom draperies and blinds provider. Gina was a director of the Prince Rupert & District Chamber of Commerce, Chair of the Prince Rupert Parking Task Force Committee, involved with the Cow Bay Merchants Association, and in tourism retail business in Cow Bay for 12 years with Blue Heron Gallery. Gina is a fourth-generation Rupertite, and she and her husband Terry have raised their family here. Gina was for ten years an avid volunteer with the Prince Rupert Youth Soccer Association, as assistant coach, team sponsor, and ultimately division coordinator.”

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Anonymous

1. What is your stance on CityWest now that it appears unable to compete effectively with the major Telco’s and is rapidly becoming a major liability to the taxpayers of PR? By this I am referencing industry trends to declining land line usage, the dramatic upswing in cellular usages and new technologies that permit video /cable services to be delivered wirelessly and of course the ability of CityWest to compete in product line up, reliability and quality of service against Rogers, Telus and Bell.
2.Are you satisfied with how CityWest performed against its original business plan?
3. Would you support releasing the original five year plan now that it is a historical document so the citizens of PR could assess how successful this decision to become a regional telecom was?
Alex

Hey,

Ok, so this guys name is Rob Vallee, running for Alderman in Prince Rupert. He is a past owner of DataBoy Computers here. He walked on his partners because he thought they were treating him badly. They were getting pissed at him because of the way he was running the company. He invited two employees to become partners then left the business after taking a draw on his shareholders account over time. That amount exceeded his credit by more than $5000.00.
Items one of his partners says are true-
He was audited a couple years ago and as recently as last year there were Canada Revenue agents looking for him at the store that he bailed out on.
He deducted money from employees for extended medical and when two of the employees went to the dentist they were presented with invoices that the dentist said they had to pay personally as there was no extended coverage for them. It is not known who ended up paying after all.
His partner who now runs DataBoy has had to pay off a number of checks and fees they incurred as a result of checks he bounced to suppliers. He also bounced some payroll checks as well.
He now runs a business out of a converted ambulance rather than a store front.

Problem, the public is unaware of how he runs his show and he is running high enough in the polls to the point that he will probably get in.
Yikes !!