Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Let's Have The Facts":
This is an example of a new revenue stream for a non-profit organization which is tax receipt-eligible for the corporate sponsor (something the Town can't issue). You and yours want to lessen the reliance on Town funding, right?
You can't have it both ways
Posted by Anonymous to Our Town and Its Business at 27 February 2014 13:
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I don't want it either way.
I want the building to be used for the purpose intended when millions of dollars were spent on it.
The State of the Art Museum design , funded by the Historical Society at a cost of $300,000 turned into a totally futile extravagance by those entrusted with stewardship.
I too believed the town could not issue tax receipts.
I was wrong .
The Town can ...can... can .
The fact is ,the original recommendation to Council , from our then Chief Financial Officer, was that a board be incorpored for the pirpose of achieving financial independence from taxpayers.
Seed money would be provided initially and reduced annually on a short.tight calendar.
Instead, funding has increased each year. Board members select board members and conduct business in secret. Council knows nothing about those to whom we hand over a valuable asset,rent free ,with all maintenance provided plus almost $400,000 a year.
Now they trumpet a new corporate sponsor. to whom they have sold something they did not own,
and payment for same, they think they can keep secret . While they continue to suck from town teat, courtesy of the present Mayor and Council, resources to the tune of three-quarters of a million dollars a year.
I am here to say. as a taxpayer first, second and foremost and as an elected representative , I am not f--- ing satisfied with that deal.
I was not asked and I did not agree .
It is no more acceptable to-day than it was the day I found out about it.
I don't much care what mealy-muthed , milque-toast , excuse for a taxpayer's representative has to say about that.
They most certainly have not represented my interest in the matter.
Thursday, 27 February 2014
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Hey. If the town did it for every room in that place, a bit of revenue might be coming in instead of always going out. I can think of some great names that would ruffle a feather or three.
Neither am I, Evelyn, satisfied with that deal. But the deal is there.
I am for whatever reduces the cost to me until such time that the deal can be scrapped, as it should have been earlier in this term, but for some very curious about-faces.
Now, if there was any attempt to keep the level of sponsorship secret, as you seem to indicate in this post, well that is another matter entirely.
Nothing is going to reduce their dependance & reliance on the town for the building & core funding. We saw that with the last presentation. Despite receiving all sorts of kudos & a grant or two, the amount did not not diminish. Aurora was even expected to be paying for an inter-com system.
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