City gets a C minus for transparency

The Canadian Newspaper Association has given the City of Thunder Bay a C minus when it comes to being transparent.  President John Hinds says they asked several simple questions to City representatives ranging from the Mayor's travel expenses to pieces of property the City purchased.  He says as an example they asked for the amount of money that the municipality spends on cell phones for city employees.  For information he says should be readily available Hinds says they requested over 2 thousand 500 dollars for that information.   For the Mayor's travel expenses the cost would have been 62 dollars.    Hinds says out of 35 municipalities Thunder Bay comes in at 31.