{"id":1762,"date":"2007-04-10T18:57:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T22:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:55:14","slug":"new-twist-in-street-furniture-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/10\/new-twist-in-street-furniture-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"New twist in street furniture saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/179\/437906309_390d029aeb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/illegalsigns.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/baydundasvideoscrsmall.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been a new twist in Toronto&#8217;s street furniture saga.  <a href=\"http:\/\/illegalsigns.ca\">Illegalsigns.ca<\/a>, a local outdoor advertising watchdog, <a href=\"http:\/\/illegalsigns.ca\/?p=2321\">is accusing on their website<\/a> that the project director of the City&#8217;s street furniture project, Robert Millward, worked for one of the outdoor advertising bidders. Millward, who is on contract with the City and is not a City of Toronto employee, is said to have worked on behalf of Kramer Design on two occasions. Kramer Design is working with Astral Media on one of the three street furniture bids. Millward is not on the jury that selects the eventual winning bid.<\/p>\n<p>More from Illegalsigns.ca press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;[N]ine months after he was retained as Project Director of the RFP, Bob Millward worked on a variance application for Kramer Design&#8217;s video screen at the southeast corner of Bay\/Dundas [shown at right]. Ten months before he was retained, he worked to develop a Kramer screen at 5000 Yonge Street, and made a deputation at Community Council in support of that screen&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Street furniture staff have suggested to us that there is no conflict of interest because Mr. Millward was not hired directly by Kramer,&#8221; says Rami Torbello of Illegal Signs. &#8220;But landlords seeking to develop Kramer billboards repeatedly hired Mr. Millward. We think Staff&#8217;s conclusion is expedient and disingenuous &#8212; it flies in the face of established City of Toronto policy. We have asked Justice Coulter Osborne, who has been retained as Fairness Commissioner, to rule that fairness has been compromised.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/illegalsigns.ca\/?p=2321\">go and read the full post<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/illegalsigns.ca\">Illegalsigns.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>image of Astral\/Kramer newspaper box <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a new twist in Toronto&#8217;s street furniture saga. Illegalsigns.ca, a local outdoor advertising watchdog, is accusing on their website that the project director of the City&#8217;s street furniture project, Robert Millward, worked for one of the outdoor advertising bidders. 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