David Price, one of Mayor Rob Ford’s top aides, has been cautioned by Metrolinx following an investigation into several incidents at the Georgetown GO Station in which a transit employee was berated and a door to the station was damaged.

The warning, delivered by telephone Friday morning, pertained specifically to Price’s behaviour toward GO Transit employees in the station, but not to damage to the station door, Metrolinx said. The provincial transit agency said it had determined that it had no jurisdiction over the damaged door, as the station is owned by Via Rail.

“However, we do take the safety and security of our staff and customers very seriously, so we have cautioned him,” said Metrolinx spokesperson Anne Marie Aikins.

She said the caution stressed that “the behaviour wasn’t appropriate and that we won’t tolerate it and will take further action if the behaviour continues.”

Transit safety officers have the power to lay provincial offences charges, and Metrolinx can ban people from using the system altogether.

The transit agency initially said it would share its results with Halton Regional Police to determine whether criminal or provincial offences charges should be laid. But now that Metrolinx has learned that damage to the station door falls outside its jurisdiction, it said it could not lay such charges.

Via Rail says it is not currently investigating the incident. A Via spokesperson would not say why the corporation was not investigating damage to its property.

Neither Price nor Ford responded to the Star’s requests for comment Friday.

The Star first reported last month that Price was the subject of a Metrolinx investigation, following complaints dating back to November 2012 about an individual acting in an abusive manner at the Georgetown GO station.

The investigation began following an incident that took place on the morning of Aug. 27, after Price missed the 7:41 train to Union Station. Transit officials say Price swore at a GO employee and broke one of the station’s main doors.

A witness filmed the incident on a cellphone and showed the video to a Star reporter. The video shows Price standing in front of the ticket booth inside the station wearing a dark suit, light shirt and white running shoes. He can be heard telling the GO employee behind the ticket counter to “f--- off” as he shoves open the station door, causing it to slam into a window ledge.

After the investigation was made public, Mayor Ford would not answer questions about Price’s future in his office.

“It’s actually no one’s business what happens in my office,” Ford said when asked if Price should remain as the mayor’s director of logistics and operations. The job comes with an estimated $130,000 annual salary.

“I take care of the people that work for me and they do a great job, as you see,” the mayor said.

Price, Ford’s former high school football coach and longtime family friend, has courted controversy since the mayor hired him in April.

In May, a day after the Star revealed that drug dealers were shopping around a video appearing to show Ford smoking crack cocaine, Price contacted Mark Towhey, the mayor’s then-chief of staff. Price asked “hypothetically” what the mayor’s office would do if he had been told where to find the video, sources told the Star.

Ford has said he cannot “comment on a video that I have never seen or does not exist.”

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Price was suspended from the mayor’s office without pay for a week in June after he called a Toronto newspaper to complain about a headline on a story describing the CBC’s revelation that he made at least six supportive phone calls to the mayor’s weekly Newstalk 1010 radio show. During the calls, Price was identified as “Dave from Scarborough,” “Dave from Georgetown,” and other pseudonyms. The calls occurred before Price was hired by the mayor.

In July, Price disappeared from City Hall for at least two weeks, after he uttered a homophobic slur to CBC reporter Jamie Strashin. It was Strashin who broke the news that Price was repeatedly phoning in to Ford’s radio show. Strashin, who is not gay, did not go public with what he heard, but did inform one of Ford’s staff members.

Kenyon Wallace can be reached at kwallace@thestar.ca or 416-558-0645.

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