I was eating breakfast and pondering the question I posed. Who messes with that stuff. ...awards and acclamations?
I recalled a proposal during the terms before last; Aurora should enter the Communities in Bloom competition.
the proponent had approached the hotel and received a commitment for accommodation for the judges. All the town needed to do was pay the $12,000 fee to enter.
Several towns and cities in Ontario were into spectacular public floral displays.
Oakville, Burlington,Brampton. Richmond Hill where the rose is in the town crest and is their floral emblem.That level of excellence came from years of investment and experience.
Aurora could not place with such competition.
Another thought entered my head. Each year I argue against a budget item of $10,000. for membership in the Canada Institute for Excellence.
This week we've been hearing that motions moved and seconded and debated in Council were senseless and designed to embarrass some poor helpless innocent individual.
Well. you know, entering a competition designed by a distant institution , making an application for an award of excellence. Paying $10,000 a year for membership in an elitist organization, to become eligible for such an award , I think that's embarrassing.
It is affectation. Empty ,frivolous, foppery. Flim-flam in the extreme . A pile of meaningless twaddle.
If any such assessment could or should be made, I think municipal employees. would be the ones to judge. Not the ones at the top.
I would be content to be assured good town employees feel secure in their jobs.
Sunday, 27 October 2013
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Like the group of Festivals who awarded their own members.
'Aurora could not place with such competition.'
Not with that kind of negative attitude, no.
I felt something was out of whack when, during the last budget discussions, staff simply announced that staff had done all the reductions that they were going to do.
And they got away with it,
Councillor Ballard once stated that Aurora residents paid no attention to municipal politics if taxes were kept low & the snow was cleared quickly. My snow is cleared promptly. He seems to have forgotten the first item in dealing with the budget.
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