St Peter Don't You Call Me Cause I can't Go

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Holy Doodle! If they had spent a fraction of that money & effort on just managing the town as they had been elected to do, we would have been in a much better place. But, then, the 'management' part didn't go too well either. West Hill must have cost a bundle as well as the chicanes and that old bug-bear, the Centre.

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You  don't know half of it my friend.

The stuff  that went behind closed that was never  the business of the  town but was financed  anyway.

Because they had six votes  minimum all the time. 

Legal fees alone for Westhill  were not far short of a million  We  rounded out the figure and more with all the failed hearings  in the quest for a joint Board before the OMB hearing  finally got going.

Traffic calming in the north-west quadrant cost $221,000.It was originally estimated at $100.000    Then refined by staff to $80,000. 

$25,000  was  spent  on the obligatory consultants  to come up with the crazy scheme. .

It took  $59,000 to undo the chicanes  and  a couple of weeks ago  another  $800  to install parking  signs where chicanes had been.

The Culture Centre Board got a  budget 2013  approved for $370,000.

I hear board members don't even have to be Aurora residents. And certainly the  bargain- priced entertainment  so  enjoyed by the Mayor is open to all. 

The Historical Society presented  a budget for their new and improved  program and they're getting  $60,000.for starters .

We have a report before us tonight that recommends hundreds of thousands to  be spent on operating a museum in a minimum of space provided  in the Church Street School.

We have been giving the Historical Society $50,000 a year  for no obvious reason ,since 2003 when the museum was dismantled 

Looks like  Aurora residents will  be paying for a collection which was  mostly donated by Aurora residents over the  last fifty years. years so that it  can officially become the town's historical collection. 

The Arboretum  will receive $60,000  for  flower bed weeding contracts and such. 

We  are to have a new customer service program that calls for millions to be spent  renovating the town hall to accommodate  ten extra works stations . When the idea  of providing customer service was  launched,  it wasn't going to cost any money at all or extra staff.

Fourteen months ago we spent $440,000 on a software program .
A couple of months later ,$56,000 on bits and pieces initially overlooked . Then  recently  $186,000  for hand held equipment for persons  in the field.

In terms of  goods and service, we got nuthin'.

 Zilch...,Zero.... Nada ....  Nil.

Not a damn thing happenin' man.

Save for  the sound of money swishing down the drain.  

A bunch of namby-pambies  who see their role as outdoing everybody who came before them in a competition to provide  an exceptional quality of life for all who pass through these portals.

We don't even have St. Peter presiding at the gate to determine who  may be eligible and who may not. .