Further to the post : Who's MindingThe Shop?
I just read a staff report submitted to Council on March 10th 2009
It is noted Newmarket, Richmond Hill and the Town of Vaughan have similar public/ private partnerships and the properties are exempt from taxes.
The internal argument has been that to obtain tax exempt status, an application needs to be made under a particular section of a particular act and it is very complicated and not worth the bother.
It is not apparent from the report, that Newmarket ,Richmond Hill and the Town of Vaughan were obliged to process an application under the particularly complicated process referred to consistently by Aurora treasury staff.
Whether or not they did, it was apparently worthwhile.
In the time we have been paying taxes on the property, it has cost the town half a million dollars paid to the Board of Education and the Region of York.
Those were taxes not paid by neighbouring municipalities within the Region for properties used in public/private partnerships exactly similar to the one we have in the Town of Aurora.
Now I ask , do we think the municipality has been well-served in this matter?
My response must be; WTF
Friday, 8 February 2013
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But we have all these Sunshine Boys at the Aurora Town Hall. No?
Dumb question: Could staff not pick up the phone and call staff at Newmarket, Richmond Hill or Vaughan to inquire how they did it?
Does this require a council resolution to pick up the phone and talk to someone who has done it before?
Who pays the taxes on the old hydro building ?
The Kiddies??
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