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I didn't see anything about you on the jazz fest website.
Did they take it down? Any links?
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I didn't see it either .I only heard about it. So I can't tell you how to find it. I don't know what was said .
I'm not interested in anything said by people who have mastered the art of exploiting public resources for private advantage while representing their purpose as charitable fund-raising and community well-being.
I don't expect to be held in high regard when my opposition is expressed in as forceful a manner as I know, to the Town allowing public resources to be exploited that way.
I expect, after the public discussion and revelation that no fee is paid for use of the park, no right to fence the park off from public use or to lease space in the park may be assumed, the festival organizers will be advised to cease and desist those practices.
Similarly, in response to another query about negotiations between the town and the governing body of the Church Street School, I cannot provide any answers.to that query either. .
I cannot conceive of an acceptable arrangement to be arrived at that will allow that board to continue to manage the facility to my satisfaction, on the basis of how it has been managed to date, as well as the disrespect shown to the town's authority or the people whose taxes have been used to finance the operation without their consent.
So I think whatever they are talking about is a waste of everyone's time. I would have withheld the funds from January1st 2011.
I refuse to accept that transferring a million and a half dollars of public resources to a body without accountability on the basis of a flawed agreement ,could pass the test of government regulations or municipal auditing.
If such free disposition of tax dollars is permissible within all the checks and balances, then as far as I am concerned, there is no fiscal integrity in the system.
If the decision is up to politicians who believe the only way to electoral success is massive giveaways of public funds, our affairs are indeed in desperate shape. .
All of your reasons are sound. But residents are going more by the fact that those operations simply do not pass the sniff test. It is up to Council to deal with the specifics.
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ReplyDeleteliability insurance? Is the town protected if something goes wrong while that fencing is in place ?
Please note that all of the events this weekend go off without a hitch and without any aid from the Culture Vultures. We have to get them in perspective. They do not supply Aurora with culture or fireworks - they just cost money.
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