{"id":1215,"date":"2012-10-04T09:48:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T13:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2012-11-05T10:47:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T15:47:20","slug":"omhm-staff-powerless-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/omhm-staff-powerless-too\/","title":{"rendered":"OMHM Staff Powerless Too?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sixty-six seniors think that their building at 720 Gamelin is filthy, but one person disagrees, so nothing will be done.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn September 12, 2012, one of our employees verified and the premises were clean,\u201d says the written response to a tenant petition. The French letter is dated September 13 and is signed by Hos\u00e9e Jeudi, who\u2019s in charge of the Southwest Sector for the Office municipal d\u2019habitation de Montreal.<\/p>\n

Except the premises weren\u2019t and still aren\u2019t clean, says Miranda Mallet, who collected signatures for the petition at the request of Jeudi himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t seen any ants since they sprayed RAID in my apartment, but that doesn\u2019t help the rest of the building,\u201d said Mallett. \u201cWhy are they asking me to collect signatures from other people if they don\u2019t intend to do anything about it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mallett took the Suburban on a tour of the building to point out hanging spider webs, dead ants in the corners and a smelly filthy garbage collection area, some of which has since been cleaned by the janitor and by tenants themselves. She also talked about opening her coffee machine and a container of fig Newtons and seeing a swarming mass of ants.<\/p>\n

She hasn\u2019t seen any ants in her apartment since an OMHM employee sprayed RAID along her cupboard in mid-September, but other tenants remain infested.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr Scali, who is in charge of the maintenance and repairs for your building informs me that he contacted you on September 12, 2012 and that you mentioned that you don\u2019t have ants. If you do have ants or other vermin, call our call centre at 514-872-6646. They\u2019ll transmit your claim to the cleanliness department. Please inform the other signatories to your petition what we\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of those who signed the petition were at the meeting with the Suburban last Monday. . \u201cWe\u2019ve been calling that line and no one does anything,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Few of the tenants knew that the OMHM complaints\u2019 office, which is open from Monday to Thursday between 8:30 and noon, is distinct from the regular repair and maintenance office that they usually call.<\/p>\n

They also didn\u2019t know that after 20 days of following the OMHM\u2019s internal complaint process, they can ask for an intervention by the Ombudswoman of Montreal. Several of the tenants will try those official procedures and see if they can get a better response than they\u2019ve had so far.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, some of the old-timers brag about how the building used to be, when it was run by LaSalle, then a separate city from Montreal.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could eat off the floor in the hallway, it was so clean,\u201d said one. \u201cThey inspected all the apartments annually too. We had seven people in the offices here. How do they expect to take care of the place when one janitor has four buildings to take care of, and another person comes in for half a day every week?\u201d<\/p>\n

Note: This story appeared\u00a0on p3 of the City edition\u00a0of the Suburban on October 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sixty-six seniors think that their building at 720 Gamelin is filthy, but one person disagrees, so nothing will be done. \u201cOn September 12, 2012, one of our employees verified and the premises were clean,\u201d says the written response to a tenant petition. The French letter is dated September 13 and is signed by Hos\u00e9e Jeudi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lasalleposts","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-jB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1710,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/public-consultation-montreal\/","url_meta":{"origin":1215,"position":0},"title":"Which public consultations attract you?","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"January 11, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"This week, LaSalle, Verdun, and other boroughs in Montreal announced new ways for residents to participate in public consultations. 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