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09:44 I find it humourous that the discussion around the centre use war-like words.
"They occupy a building...." is just another in a long line of it.
The reality is, they are using a building that the elected officials of this Town have granted them access. Further, the Town has also decided to provide funding.
Short of ideas like storing a bunch of old garbage (under the guise of a museum), no one has a better use for the building. As well, no one can suggest anything that will not drain the treasury of the Town.
My point in this is to ask all of those so critical of the Centre - Ms Buck included - to provide a viable replacement?Posted by Anonymous to Our Town and Its Business at 29 December 2014 at 08:58
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I left this comment in draft to consider how to handle it. The language is abrasive. Yet the writer clearly wants to engage. I am always happy to oblige though usually in respectful terms.
Reference to the museum collection being a "bunch of old garbage " is scuttlebutt. The town treasurer made similar reference. He suggested the collection was a bunch of stuff collected from yard sales.
I thought it odd at the time. The collection had been stored when the museum was required to vacate the old school for renovations. Mr. Elliott was not in town service then. Nor domiciled in the area. It was easy to conclude the information was other than from personal experience..
It may be safe to assume contemptuous dismissal of collection value was part reason for the board decision to squeeze the museum out of the facility.
The board's first decision was to lease dedicated museum space to a York Region Arts organization.
Rent- free lease with the town, required permission to lease space to a third party.
Re-organization of town management team shifted responsibility for facilities from the Director
of Leisure Services to Director of Environmental and Infrastructure.(formerly public works) .Mr.
Simanovskis knew nothing of the matter and gave permission without a second thought. Didn't even ask
Truth is the facility was always intended to serve the dual purpose. Cultural events would obviously be compatible with heritage.
Only one objective validates separate management. Independence from tax support to ensure the program would not be an additional burden to taxpayers.
Annual increases in financial support, even when space and responsibility were reduced, establishes there is not even awareness of the imperative let alone intent.
The Culture Centre Board of Management is redundant.
Leisure programming under town management is self-sufficient.
Revenues more than offsets expenditures.
There is no rationalization under any formula that justifies continuance.
The community is ill-served.
The Board should resign.
Tuesday, 30 December 2014
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The Board is certainly redundant to town management. It just adds an extra layer of bodies and costs to the running of the place. People tend to forget that the place was once a bustling school run by teachers and a small janitorial team. Now the current operators are comparing themselves to operations such as the Art Gallery and Museum. It is all so grandiose.
I doubt the the board is going anywhere. They feel they are doing a good job. What I would like to see from them, though, is some indication that they recognize the need to reduce the annual subsidy paid by the town. That is happening all over the country as organizations adjust to the economy. If they truly are an important part of Aurora, they should be willing to share some of the burden.
I laughed when reading the comment in regards to the word "occupy", and how it is used as a war-like term. I'd like to know what word is appropriate? They're not leasing it so the're not tenants.
The town doesn't run it either, so it's not a town program. I guess it's just another creative way for the town to justify spending to the entitled.
15:04, "the entitled" being all Aurorans, of course.
The one who employed the war terms was former Cllr Ballard with his sabres at dawn. And to a certain extent that Italianate whacko who never got to be Cllr.
I have no idea what prompting the weird out-pouring from that centre lackey - maybe the non-attendance at their meeting which no one seems to have known about - but it has not served their image well.
When I was in Tim's I head a couple of guys who I did not even recognize discussing the Self-centred centre.
15:04- These services are all ready being offered by the town and privately for all Aurorans.
19:02, where else in Aurora can I go to see Sylvia Tyson, Dan Hill, or Dala in 2015?
10 minutes down the road at the Performing Arts Center !
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