Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "He
Is No Machiavellian Prince":
Please try and get your numbers
accurate:
sucks up about half a million and growing
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In 2010 it was $343,000.plus $147,000 for maintenance and utilities, It was not a full year The payment was for that part of the year the facility was occupied. A matching grant was paid for a $50,000 donation
No rent was paid. .
Also the residue of the budget for the renovation , furnishings and equipment were turned over to the board in an amount in excess of $300.000.
T he agreement calls for 3% increase. annually. The payment for 2011 was $347,000. Plus cost for maintenance and utilities which would also have increased to more than $147,000.
Still no rent paid.
In 2012, the 3% increase brought the payment to $356,000.. Plus the cost of maintenance and utilities again incrementally more.
Still no rent being paid.
I understand in 2011, $15,000 was raised in "charitable" drives and that was matched by the town..
In last year's report, reference was made to a financial calculation for volunteer hours contributed.
No doubt another match of funds expected.
It should be understood town payments are not in the form of a grant..
The title of the agreement is " Contract for Purchase Of Culture" ..
We are purchasing with taxpayers' dollars, culture for the masses.
We set \ up the board. We paid for the lawyer to file the articles of incorpoation. We paid for the lawyer working on their part of the agreement. We handed over a building that cost $2.3 million plus $700,000 from a federal heritage to renovate for a state of the art modern museum.
Then we made a deal to purchase an unknown quantity or quality of culture for an ever-growing amount which is probably closer to full million that half a million.a year.
Where is the public interest served with a deal like that.
Who was minding the store?
Who is minding the store ?
De'il the yin as far as I can see.? ..
It would have been helpful at that mob-meeting if the town had seen fit to hand out those figures in your post to those attending. Maybe it would have filtered through to some of them that they were involved in a giant rip-off. Or not.
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