Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Rental Revenue Is A Mirage": 16 February, 2012 11:55 AM said:
"2:28 PM
You say it is not a " bad deal." Surely you are not suggesting that it is a good one. It is abysmal and you know it."
What exactly would make you happy about this deal? Are you like Evelyn and suggest that we hang on to this asset forever waiting to sell it? How long was it available and NO ONE bought it?
We had a building that was costing us money daily for up keep and utilities. It was not suitable for the type job that we may have to build for now.
We are now receiving revenue from a previously non-revenue location.
So, not a bad deal. If we could have sold it, it would be a good deal. Based on those factors, I don't think that was anything better coming.
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No decision was made by either Council to sell the building.
The Town had a purpose for the building and was putting it to good use as a Parks building.
Also town archives were being stored in the building.
The town has a consultant study proposing capital costs of $17million to provide a joint facility for works and parks.
Parks could have moved to the Hydro Building with its offices, yard, workshop and bays for vehicle accommodation maybe even the recreation department could have moved out of the town hall
into the office space.
Works could have taken over the parks building and yard with no need for millions of dollars of capital expenditure to be contemplated.
The other option would have been to declare the property surplus to our needs and sell it to realize assessment revenue and restore the twenty nine jobs that were lost when hydro moved out.
If revenue from rent is swallowed up in spending on the building to suit the needs of the Department of National Defence,
how does that show up as income to the town.? It is not.
How many times do these facts need to be repeated before they are understood?
I guess I know the answer to that.
The gremlin who keeps repeating the fallacy doesn't want he facts to be understood for what they are.
A building the town needed, no matter how it turned, was turned over to a group with a vested interest with another one of those contracts like the Church Street School.
The only aspect of the arrangements that doesn't smell to high heaven is that it didn't turn out the way they hoped it would.
If we have not yet dealt with the contracts, at least we have dealt with the signatories.
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
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oh come on Evelyn, when are you going to get it.
It was all done for the Kiddies, surley that trumps a multi million dollar expenditure of taxes dollars, you just never seem to understand the logic of MorMac
Keep on trucking. In the end there may only be the chicanes to recall the Mormac Reign. It is impossible to imagine how those individuals must feel to see, one after another, their landmarks and positions put into the toilet. Nothing has been learned, however. The single attempt at an apology was from paper-waving, chair-tilting bully Wilson and someone cut his mic off. For the record, I believe that apology was for the abuse of David Heard and the town should have heard it.
The justice system grinds far too slowly; it is up to Aurorans to remedy the situation and reclaim their town. One step at a time, day be day, Evelyn by Evelyn.
Me. I'm still waiting for Guy Poppe's promised list of the Morris accomplishments. Let's see. Yes, that was just prior to the election. Still waiting and you did promise. If you wished to reply, I'm sure Evelyn would allow you a spot as the Citizen banned you from participation. But not a long term tenure.
Long long day. thank you.
"A building the town needed, no matter how it turned, was turned over to a group with a vested interest with another one of those contracts like the Church Street School."
The Canadian Armed Forces has a vested interest in Aurora Politics?
You gotta be kidding me. Where does this stuff come from?
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