Updates

The town has not purchased the drill shed yet. A bylaw to purchase was passed on Tuesday as a requirement of the Department of National Defence minions.

Two figures made public are price and cost of work needing done. It's being sold "as is". Cost of maintenance has not been addressed.

The building is useless to any other organization. There's no property for side yards, rear yards, parking or landscaping .

None of the requirements of modern zoning are available.

I repeat, the town has not agreed to purchase.

If you don't think we should have to pay for that old barn sitting in a corner of the town park, there's still time to let your Councillors know. They will likely be at the Hoedown on Saturday night.

The property should come back to the rightful owner  At the same price paid by the Auld Queen
and Emperor.

Pssshaw!!!!!!!!

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The Culture Centre Board pays no rent for Church Street School. Despite millions spent to renovate to it's current condition. Maintenance is provided and paid one hundred per cent by the town. On top of that we shovel almost $400,000 a year at them from tax coffers and aside from the Mayor and Councillor Abel we don't have a clue who they are. They appoint themselves and get to keep whatever revenue the building and programs produce and solicit sponsorships and donations from the community. They meet in secret.

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The hydro property is rented.... I think the lease is thirty or forty years. Long enough to make town ownership irrelevant. We forfeit assessment revenue by keeping it in town ownership. We lost twenty-seven jobs when Hydro moved out. As landlords we are responsible for upkeep of the building and property. The parks department maintains the yard. I have no idea how many of the $27 million we are spending on the J.O.C. as parks department share. Completely unnecessary had we kept the hydro building. Comments received make it sound as if QYR use it on Tuesday evenings and Saturdays.

I hear alterations made by QYR make it useless to the town. Even if the Feds decided the needs of modern warfare makes current drills out of date.

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The additional Wikipedia reference to a personal injury claim is interesting. So it's not about bodily injury. It's about mental injury caused by being defamed.

I am the one suing for defamation and abuse of authority, abuse of resources, and denial of rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  So I' m the one who suffered personal injury. So why are the people who caused the personal injury provided with defence counsel paid for through the town's insurance policy. I am a Councillor. Why am I not the one protected from injury.

The Vice President said the company tries to bring the parties to a settlement. No...they did not do that. The problem can sometimes be resolved with an apology, he said.  No....they did not do that either. The opportunity was provided.

Mental  injury...damned right there has been mental injury. If the town is carrying insurance to protect a Councillor from mental injury caused by defamation,why don't I know about it?

$845,000 the insurance company paid to defend defendants has done little to assuage my mental injury, that's for sure.

My tax dollars were used to cause me harm.

Mayor Dawe and Councillor Abel, elected for change from last transgressions, now adding insult to injury in time for a new election by doing exactly what the last lot thought they could do without challenge. And at almost the same time, four years ago when three other citizens were subjected to the same kind of abuse paid for with their own taxes to silence criticism.