Circuitous Logic

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "The Road To Perdition":

"There are two staff members. Plus maintenance.
Cost to the taxpayers is $270,000 a year."

According to the Parks & Rec Director, $270, 0000 was the shortfall that the Town had to cover for the Seniors Centre. I think you need to add the salaries & benefits costs of the two Town staff persons, along with the building maintenance coats, to that $270 K total.
Also, the Seniors Centre provides facilities and programming for a specific niche group of residents aged 55+. The Cultural Centre demographic covers the whole age spectrum from young to old
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 If you think you can justify  putting the cost of culture on the backs of taxpayers,  I  understand why  feel the need to challenge figures provided  as  cost of operating the Senior's Centre.  
$270,000 is  the annual cost to taxpayers as provided by the Director of Leisure Services. 
The figure was given  several weeks ago during a budget discussion. Why on earth  do  you not understand that cost of operating a facility includes  the cost of operating  the  facility.
You are  not correct that  the Centre provides  services only  to  niche group. 
7,000 square feet  of the Centre is dedicated to Seniors . $7,000 square feet  is permitted  to other users.
There are 1371  members in the seniors club. They pay a membership of $20. annually. The town takes ,I  think, $18. of the  fee. 
Seniors manage  programs financially and they have a tidy sum in the bank. 
They're a canny group.

The library  can also be used as a comparator to  the Culture Centre.
The building has 44,000 square feet. Twenty full time staff and sixteen part time. They provide a multitude of services including an art gallery, writing clubs, computer workshops and programs too numerous to mention. 
Many falling under the heading of culture and  others with a more serious purpose.
There is no question of  community  support for  library services.
Library services weren't snuck in by the back door, stealing space and furnishings designed for a museum and paid for in  good part by funds raised  in the community for the purpose, plus  a $750,000 grant obtained for  specific needs of a museum.
Culture  Centre spending of tax dollars doesn't stand up well against the library either. Yet we have Councillors every year who feel compelled to reduce their budget. Even while they cant find enough ways to  hand money out the back door to people who are not accountable.   
Speaking of culture, the seniors centre has a room  for  sing-alongs and  such. 
Why did the Culture Centre feel compelled to  hi-jack the sing-along with free admission to fill their program schedule.
Will they go after seniors art classes next  and offer them free as well to make themselves look successful. . 
To the other poster;Sabotage has a particular meaning for people of my generation . It means secret ,furtive skulking about in the dark with explosives  designed to destroy enemy forces.  The French underground did their part in the second World War to defeat the enemy.
I  do  not  furtively engage in a campaign against the Culture Centre.
I  openly avow my opposition to the outrageous theft of the Aurora Museum.
I am not alone. 
People who don't care much about the museum are not enamoured about  purchase of culture any more than they support the idea of Councillors or staff buying booze on the town's tab.
So.. take that and that and that ...Supporter of  Socialist Culture  who must hide behind anonymous so  neighbours won't know who he is and what he stands for.