KA-NON has left a new comment on your post "Lavender's Blue, Dilly Dilly----Lavender's Green":
I am not sure I understand this clearly. Are you saying that a $323,000 project was cancelled, or that we incurred costs of $323,000 for the Town Hall renovation, a project that was eventually cancelled, and that cost ($323K) was not referenced on the list?
The figure of $313,722 was made available to Council on November 5th, last Tuesday. The
number difference was my error. I was going by recollection.
Because of the two hours spent on the question of an unwanted school site on Mavrinac Boulevard, the agenda was not completed even though the hour of adjournment was extended until 11.15p.m.
Monday night's report to the budget meeting was the financial status of capital projects; completed, underway, not started and cancelled. It included various expenditures for projects that did not materialize.
In a separate report on Monday. council were informed that because of a projected 2013 budget deficit, projects had been deferred and other actions taken to "mitigate " the deficit and allow the year to end with a "surplus"
The figures on the cancelled town hall renovation project were not included in Monday's report.
They were not available when the report was compiled.
Although ....I did ask a couple of meetings ago... what had been spent on the town hall renovation project before it was cancelled?
The Treasurer answered immediately, without having to check, $300,000; to be just as quickly contradicted by the CAO.
The following week I submitted Notice of Motion to direct a report giving the figures to be provided.
The Motion was withdrawn with indication that a report was forthcoming.
The report was on Tuesday's agenda.
We didn't get to it.
It will be on next Tuesday's Council agenda
Council meetings are normally shown on Cable 10
See you there
Thursday, 7 November 2013
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I'm pretty darn sure that I heard staff tell council at their last Council meeting - not the GC - that the figure would be available for the GC. You are quite right. The first figure was given with authority & then taken back with the promise of ALL the #'s being available. The councillor to whom that assurance was made was Cllr Thompson.
Not much got done given all the preparations by staff & councillors. Somehow they have to figure out how to side-track the side-shows into a special slot of their own. Streaming an hour and a half of an empty chamber is not constructive.
It's gotta be pricey when they add in all the construction work in the old library. I think that lower number was probably only ' studies ' and ' planning '. Designing stuff.
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