Bids received for boat tours below Falls
From the Buffalo News:
A deadline to submit proposals to operate boat tours from the Canadian shore below Niagara Falls passed Monday, but the number of bidders and the names of companies that submitted proposals will remain secret for now.
Niagara Parks Commission Chairwoman Fay Booker said the commission does not plan to release details about the proposals at least until after the commission has made its recommendation for what company should operate the tours.
“Once we finish the evaluation process, we’ll probably be able to do a bit of a summary report in terms of how many bids came in and who the recommended proponent is,” Booker said.
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New manager by June, predicts NPC chairwoman
From the Niagara Falls Review:
It could be summer before the Niagara Parks Commission gets a new manager at the helm as the government agency begins the process to fill the shoes of its retired boss John Kernahan.
“I’m going to suggest the search process is going to take three or four months,” chairwoman Fay Booker said in an interview. “It can be into June before we have our person on site. That would be a guess of mine.”
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Deadline for boat tour bid Monday (yesteday)
(I know I’m late, but I still wanted to post it…)
From the Niagara Falls Review:
If you ever wanted to run boat tours on the Niagara River, Monday’s deadline day.
Companies interested in winning a lease from the Niagara Parks Commission on the water-f ront landing needed to operate tours from the Canadian side of the Niagara River has until Jan. 31 to submit their bids.
“I have no idea how big each of the proposals will be, but I imagine there will be a depth of information,” said Niagara Parks Commission chairwoman Fay Booker.
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Parks Commission finds no evidence of forgery
From Bullet Media:
Niagara Parks Commission chairwoman Fay Booker has said she is always ready to call police if she finds evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the provincial agency.
So far she hasn’t found any.
Booker told Bullet Media she has reviewed a file concerning an alleged forgery. She said there is no indication the alleged incident ever occurred.
Follow the link to read the entire article…
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NPC looking for ‘honesty’
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Pinocchio need not apply to the Niagara Parks Commission.
Honesty, integrity and independence have been added as qualifications expected of future commissioners as the Ontario government prepares to fill six vacancies on the agency responsible for running the public parks and attractions along the Niagara River.
Chairwoman Fay Booker said it was her “suggestion” to add the new criteria to improve the wording in previous ads.
“There was some tweaking of it again this time around. Every time we do it, there’s some more tweaking,” she said.
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Parks Commission faces uphill task to educate visitors about Niagara
From Bullet Media:
Niagara Falls may be one of the world’s most famous tourist attractions, but many visitors, even those from this country, just want to take a fast look at the water, buy some icewine, and head down the QEW to Toronto.
And that’s a serious problem, says Niagara Parks Commission Chairwoman Fay Booker.
“We have to do a much better job of educating people in our prospective markets,” she said during a Parks Commission meeting Wednesday morning. “We have to tell people there is so much more to do here. We have to keep them here longer.”
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Niagara not just a day trip: Booker
From Niagara This Week:
Niagara Falls may be one of the world’s most famous tourist attractions, but many visitors, even those from this country, just want to take a fast look at the water, buy some icewine, and head down the QEW to Toronto.
And that’s a serious problem, says Niagara Parks Commission Chairwoman Fay Booker.
“We have to do a much better job of educating people in our prospective markets,” she said during a Parks Commission meeting Wednesday morning. “We have to tell people there is so much more to do here. We have to keep them here longer.”
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HEADS ROLL AS ONTARIO PARKS ATTEMPTS CLEANUP OF MAID OF THE MIST MESS
From the Niagara Falls Reporter:
Chalk up a victory for justice and the Niagara Falls Reporter — whose articles on Ontario’s Niagara Parks Commission (NPC) and their secret arrangements with James Glynn, longtime owner of the Maid of the Mist — led to more than the unraveling of his lease.
Last week, four NPC commissioners, including staunch Glynn ally Archie Katzman, were fired by the Ontario Ministry of Tourism. Katzman sat on the board for 40 years. The others were Fred Louws, Italia Gilberti and Ed Werner.
NPC General Manager John Kernahan announced he would retire effective immediately. He had been there 12 years. NPC Business Development Director Joel Noden, Kernahan’s righthand man, was unceremoniously fired from his $130,000 job after 13 years. Prior to that, there was the resignation of NPC Chairman Jim Williams, who was replaced by accountant Fay Booker.
In short, all the architects of the Maid of the Mist secret lease arrangements are gone at the NPC.
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NPC projects continue under temporary board, Booker says
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Two of the big projects on the plate of the Niagara Parks Commission will continue over the winter despite Monday’s turfing of four government-appointed commissioners and their temporary replacement by six senior bureaucrats.
Chairwoman Fay Booker said a government-ordered competition to pick a company to run boat tours on the Niagara River is unfolding, as is a strategic planning exercise Booker launched earlier this year.
The parks commission put the “final strokes” on its request for proposals Tuesday -the document private companies interested in providing boat tours will respond to.
“Then it’s all in the hands of the bidders in terms of the bidding,” Booker said in an interview this week.
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NPC projects continue under temporary board, Booker says
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Two of the big projects on the plate of the Niagara Parks Commission will continue over the winter despite Monday’s turfing of four government-appointed commissioners and their temporary replacement by six senior bureaucrats.
Chairwoman Fay Booker said a government-ordered competition to pick a company to run boat tours on the Niagara River is unfolding, as is a strategic planning exercise Booker launched earlier this year.
The parks commission put the “final strokes” on its request for proposals Tuesday -the document private companies interested in providing boat tours will respond to.
“Then it’s all in the hands of the bidders in terms of the bidding,” Booker said in an interview this week.
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