I spent twenty minute trying to find a comment on the Rob Ford issue that I accidentally deleted late last night.
I can't look any more.
It hurts my eyes to keep scanning the tiny greyed-out print in the deleted file.
So ....will the person who wrote the comment please send it to me again.
I want to print it.
We worked on the capital budget again on Monday night. . From 7 until 10.30 P.M. I think we did some good work, It's hard to tell until we're done.
We will not be doing the multi-million dollar renovation to the town hall or spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on the customer service thing-a-mi-jig.
I have to try to get the new roof and HVAC system for the old library back on the table for discussion.
A decision has been pending on the disposition of the building since the new library was completed and occupied.
A year ago, Council passed a resolution directing staff to advise on disposition of the old library and older still firehall on Victoria Street.
Council direction has not been followed.
No report has been presented.
Instead a recommendation is made to spend thousands of dollars on a new roof and HVAC system on the old library.
Like the resolution never happened.
Like Council doesn't exist.
Like it doesn't matter what Council directs because they're not running things anyway.
Like Council is kind of a peripheral floater on the vision of the Executive Leadership Team.
Last night Council allocated $197,000 from the Hydro Reserve to pay for the Sesquicentennial Celebration.
That's like using a credit card to buy candy.
If that's not frittering the fund away in bits and pieces ,I don't know what is.
I begin to suspect our Mayor may be a secret shopaholic.
But we put the boots to the Tennis Club's idea for a playhouse(read year round tennis facilities)in the flood plain to add the exclusive use of publicly-owned tennis courts and club house at McMahon Park.
More later
Letter to the Aurora Communications Department:
ReplyDeleteIs there anyone there who noticed that the Council meeting was not being televised? Did no one at home think to check? The meeting had its moments but we are forced to wait until you and Rogers decide that we may view it.
Congratulations. You are living up to your reputation.
Did Councillor Ballard get his alcohol ban? That is right up there with teens' illicit tobacco use on my list of important issues. Always with the Code of Conduct stuff about how to behave.
ReplyDelete12:10's comment is typical of those that look at anything from a person on their "hate radar" as being bad. MISINFORMATION
ReplyDeleteBallard is asking for a rule to prevent the expensing of alcohol purchases with meals and entertainment. This is not a foreign concept in the business world. In fact there are some corprations (mine included) that prohibit the consumption of alcohol at company funded lunch and dinners.
Next time you go out for a meal, take a look at how much the alcohol component of the bill is and ask yourself how much of your tax dollars you would like to waste on mega-marked up alcohol?
I do not have a problem with his resolution. There is nothing to say they can't have a glass of wine, but do it on your own dime - not the tax payers'.