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Dear Editor,
Turns out the RMOW has been pumping out websites faster than you can shake your head. For what reason, I do not know, other than to waste more tax dollars, as at least two of them are almost the same. Such as the New “OCP” and “The Whistler Way” websites both running accessibility pages on them in a “competitive stance” to our own non-profit society’s Whistlerforthedisabled.com (WFTD) website. Maybe their staff have nothing to do now that the 2010 Games are over, so they think they can keep busy by creating duplicate websites to justify their four per cent salary increases (Whistler Question, July 8) per year that residents have to pay for…?
Regardless of the fact that all our profits we generate on the WFTD website go back into supporting people with disabilities or various disability groups throughout B.C. and Canada. Not to mention the new accessibility via new infrastructure for people with disabilities over the past few years that I had worked personally on my own to bring into the Whistler community successfully — at no cost to the taxpayers to boot — and the many people and families whom I have helped out directly come to the Whistler community to spend their money here that really turns me off…? I guess it is the RMOW employees who think they can do these things and get away with it and I guess they can…?
I was so disgusted with the way the RMOW Advisory Group that I had been volunteering for since 2006 had become nothing more than a propaganda machine for 2010 Legacies Now, with council representation, that I decided to quit the group!
At the end of my resignation letter to the group I stated that I wished everyone the best of luck. I guess that was only a one-way deal, though. So this is the way the RMOW staff and 2010 Legacies Now repay your efforts and continued support for a community — by stabbing your non-profit organization and knifing you in the back at the same time? Am I missing the “inclusion” of people with disabilities that they tell everyone they live by? I don’t think their website should be called “The Whistler Way.” A better name for it would be “The RMOW Way” or “The Wrong Way.”
Hugh Tollett
Director,
The Whistler for the Disabled Society
www.whistlerforthedisabled.com
