Report titled Facilities Cleaning Services Value for Money Audit dated September 3, 2025…

1:51:56i see council councillor busettill and then mayor got three go ahead councillor busettill thank you i

1:52:00didn't want to speak to it i just wanted to say thank you i thought it was excellent very thorough

1:52:04and and i thoroughly enjoyed the recommendations so thank you to the staff for all this work

1:52:10so thank you councillor much appreciated uh mayor got three thank you chair three it's only

1:52:18comments so thank you um it it's a little bit of a ditto to what councillor busettill just said but

1:52:24i just think that sometimes i hope i'm speaking here for all of us on council we often sometimes

1:52:29hear like in the community are you checking this are you checking that you know and so the answer is

1:52:36yes and here it is so um you know value for money audits is something that we've been consistently

1:52:45doing for years and years and years there's money that's put into the budget every year to do at least

1:52:50two um you know so i just want to thank you guys for for the work that you did as councillor

1:52:57busettill said it's very thorough and very well laid out the results are here uh when we will continue

1:53:03to do value for money audits because i think the taxpayers expect that of us to continue to look

1:53:10and it's important also though and i i learned this years ago that when you walk into an audit

1:53:14you don't know what the outcome's going to be it doesn't automatically prescribe that it's going to

1:53:19be savings um there could be actually the recommendations could be you need investments

1:53:24in certain areas to meet customer service better or to find efficiencies here but the real work is

1:53:30just doing the value for money audit that that part and at least checking is something that i just

1:53:35really i'm just really glad that we do that here at the city of guelph and it's something that all

1:53:39of council has always been behind so thank you very much thank you chair for letting me say that

1:53:43because i think it just needs to be said more often thank you worship for those um

1:53:49very powerful comments could i have someone move the uh moved by councillor busettill seconded by

1:53:55councillor Caron um before i call the vote i just wanted to uh take a moment to thank you both

1:54:02mr khan and mr jelasek for for this report i think it's very helpful for any community member

1:54:08as the mayor said who's wondering if the city is looking at the dollars and cents i think this is

1:54:13an perfect example of what we're doing to increase government efficiency i will now call the vote all

1:54:21those against this report please hands up same non approved unanimously thank you both um now before