It Is What It Is

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.? ..