NOT SO.. NOT SO

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Financial Statements Should be Public":


"...the general public who funds us, sees the same value as our patrons who use us?"


Mr Sesto, the "patrons" are members of "the general public" - there are not two distinct groups, but a contingent of the whole.


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Church Street School Board members and hangers-on continue to  have a problem discerning the difference between their clients  or patrons and  the general public of Aurora.

They are not the same.  Their clients and supporters come from miles around.


Critical  discernment  lies in  the source of funding.

During the board's challenge  to the town's authority,  Councillors received a deluge of e-mail admonitions  about our philistine attitude towards the arts .  More than half were from people who live miles away. All were from the Board's e-mail list.


If they were paying what it cost to provide the programs they were enjoying ,it would matter not a whit  where they came from.

If the costs ,covering rent, maintenance and  programs artists were being provided  by the Government of Ontario, it would not matter a whit where they came from in Ontario. 

If  all costs were being completely funded by the Government of Canada, it would not matter a whit whence from in Canada they  came to enjoy the extraordinary facility in Aurora. 

The difference is the funds are  being picked  out of the pockets of    Aurora property owners  by the Town of Aurora without as much as a by your leave . 

The contract was slyly advanced through the approval process with nary a word from  whatever source  to indicate how badly taxpayers were to be gouged and  exploited for the political advantage of less than a handful. 

Who are now gone and replaced with  a new group  intent in covering their  own posteriors  and stubbornly resolved not to deal with the reality of how Church Street School  was  shanghaied by shameless despots, thereby assigning  the new crop  the role of accessories after the fact.

Paul Sesto's calculation is only incorrect insofar as it assumes  users of  the facility are the same as those  paying taxes to fund the facility. 

They are not.

Psshaw...Pestilential Pirates , lily-livered scoundrels, betrayers of women and children,  the lot of them