There's a storm brewing over the youth centre plans at the Aurora Family Leisure Complex.
Council approve new plans and $2.6 million additional funds for the project on July 16th.
Four voted against the recommendation . Five were in favour.
We had a jam -packed agenda. One significant decision after another.
We hadn't completed an agenda since May and worked until 12 midnight evey time.
We were in summer recess.
I think the vote came down to Councillors taking sides .
My argument was that we should stop at that point to review everything from the point of several sites being identified as options.
Since the site chosen turned out to have soil problems and cost $2.6 million dollars more to build , I thought that was good reason to review the choice of site.
I was not successful.
Councillor Abel argued I hadn't been in favour of a youth centre from the beginning. I was just trying to sabotage the project. He said the AFLC hadn't been built to Code in the beginning and this Council was having to spend more money to correct the mistakes of the past.
That was the sense of it. The words are mine. If it wasn't so damned insulting and expensive thatlast comment would have made me chuckle.
I don't think of Councillor Abel as the Wise Old Man of the East.
Anyway, users of the AFLC have discovered Council's last decision means their fitness programs will be shut down for the next twelve months and the teen cenre, ather being an addition to the existing building, will be distributed space throughout the centre.
The concept has not been well received. Especially being dropped on them from out of the blue.
A delegation is expected at Tuesday's meeting .
Put out, pardon the pun, users are appealing to their elected representatives to change the decision.
Excuse me whle I turn my face to the side, cover it with my hand and indulge an evil grin..
Sunday, 6 October 2013
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Does the delegation want Council to appeal the additional expenditure, look at another site or dropping this concept of a "Youth Center"? I’m hoping the latter.
Uh, I wonder if added into this toxic mess, might be the fact that that poll in the Auroran that ran for about a month couldn't drum up any more than about a 25% approval from residents for the added expense to continue this project ?
It was made quite clear at that earlier meeting that the teens were going to have space throughout the project. Including some crazy climbing wall in the lobby. Guess that changing room will remain ' not up to standard '.
Laughing with you - but it is going to cost more in the long run. As usual.
They should take a long hard look at the armoury.
I'm scared to look at the Agenda. Aren't they doing that tree by-law & that poor guy with the 3 trees? They bloody well should do him first. He's earned it in spades.
" Dropped on them out of the blue " Really? Did it not occur to them that they might be inconvenienced by the renovation of the building?
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