Decisions are not made in Committee.
Recommendations are made from committee to Council.
The recommendation as it stands, is not to award the contract for service.
None of the parties are recommended for the contract.
Not the Historical Society, Not the Culture Centre Board,
If Council appoints a curator, the town will provide heritage and museum services. The town will have a presence in Church Street School .
The Culture Centre Board presents quarterly financial statements to the Director of Parks and Recreation.
No reports on performance are submitted to Council.
A self-appointed board receives almost $400,000 tax resources and free facilities from the town and accounts to no-one for none of it.
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& that, is exactly why no one with whom I have spoken wants the town's heritage collection to go into some faceless, unaccountable organization of any type.
I received the impression from the orations of Cllrs Thompson and Humfryes that the Centre and the Historical Society were going to link hands and dance off happily together down the tax-payers' path.
The Board reports to the Director, and the Director reports to the CAO, and the CAO reports to Council.
That 'chain of command' sounds like accountability to me.
According to the latest listing there are four Officer/Directors, the President, the Vice-President, the Treasurer and the Secretary. In addition there are nine Directors of the Culture Centre Board. Two of these are ex officio, namely Mayor Dawe and Councillor Abel.
Since Messrs. Dawe and Abel are both Centre Directors and Council members presumably information can flow, possibly both ways.
The original agreement between the Town and the Centre was flawed and rewritten and is still flawed.
Let's face it, the Centre can probably do whatever it wishes, whether with or without financial accountability, although it does have to present its budget and plan annually.
For the most part the Centre is probably doing a reasonably good job, it touches a relatively small number of the community and there are those who continue to fight it. Maybe it's time when it would be better to join than to fight.
By the way - is there a complete list of the heritage artifacts with individual values?
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The only Easter Bunny I believe in is the one who meets with the Auroran cartoonist.
17:43, you also believe in the Pied Piper of Holman.
22:17
Of whence ?
I know that Councillor Ballard once trumpeted " Let the games begin " in a reference to council. But you are the only person i ever hear laugh out loud at something you or someone else has said. Am I missing shared mirth ?
It's a play on words, 08:50. Rather than Hamelin, Cllr Buck's street of residence was used.
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