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economist suntribune news saturday dec 7 2002 9 senior toronto officials didnt provide critical information cao says from page 1 lease rate was only good for 90 days it would subse quently be set by mfp based on current conditions and has since peaked at more than 1 1 per cent the fact the contract would be extended from three to five years and the fact 235 million of com puter equipment already purchased by the city was sold to mfp and then leased back as part of the deal would you expect disclo sures of that from profession als like them asked mr manes yes replied mr garrett and if we assume that all of these were not disclosed would you say that this report was less than full and frank and accurate asked mr manes yes said mr garrett who now oversees york regions 1 billion budget and 1700 staff earlier in fridays testimo ny mr manes asked mr garrett the extent to which ms liczyk and mr andrew were responsible for notify ing council of the details its the person who has direct responsibility for this ms liczyk and mr andrew said mr garrett but to be clear they may have relied on their staff to bring certain items forward as well but theyre the captain of that ship said mr manes theyre the captain of that ship said garrett v he went on to testify about his approval of the purchase and subsequent lease of 10000 oracle soft ware licences the city later found it didnt need mr garrett said he approved the purchase in the context of the citys y2k preparations based on staff advice we were moving forward with major new software that would hopefully reduce the paper process that we had in place said mr garrett we mr garrett said he approved the purchase in the context of the citys y2k preparations based on staff advice wanted technology that had room to grow mr garrett who left toronto in 2001 after a public split with mayor mel lastman also spoke at length about his work developing torontos code of conduct early in the first years of the amalgamated city mr garrett 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