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The City of Ottawa has revealed there have been no formal performance reviews of the current city manager or auditor general, even though council authorized staff to set up a way for the evaluations to happen.

The admission is in a written response to an inquiry sent to city clerk Rick O’Connor last month from Coun. Riley Brockington, who was concerned there hadn’t been formal performance evaluations for city manager Steve Kanellakos and auditor general Ken Hughes.

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Brockington submitted the inquiry during a council meeting as the city came under fire for the poor performance of the Stage 1 LRT system and procurement of the Stage 2 Trillium Line project. The councillor, however, said his inquiry wasn’t solely rooted in concerns about the O-Train project.

In December 2014, council voted to have the mayor and deputy mayors conduct performance reviews of the city manager, while the mayor, audit committee chair and audit committee vice-chair would handle the performance reviews of the auditor general.