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Speaking of Waste , can you fill us in on what’s going on over at the old Hydro Building, looks desolate as hell , is there some kind of top secret military think tank happening over there , have they constructed a subterranean entrance into the place , Has the Town canceled the Deal ? fill us in Please
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It's still empty. Desolate. Nothing appears to be going on. It's not an old building.
This time last year, the town was using it. We were storing archives and stuff there..
The Parks Department was using it as a workshop. They built parts for a gazebo there in the winter,
brought it out and erected it in the Spring. Somebody asked me how come you spent all that money. We didn't.The Parks Department built it.
It was vacated by Power Stream months after they signed a year's lease with no penalty clause. They left with one month's notice.We had a legal department then too.
It was built by Aurora Hydro when they outgrew their space on Mosely Street. It became an asset of the new utility when the Province decided all utilities should be privatised.
When the town sold the utility to Power Stream, the property housed twenty-seven employees with a huge workshop, garage and a five acre yard ,
Property assessment was worth $69.Ks a year to the town.
I thought it should be sold to bring in revenue, replace twenty-seven jobs lost and realise millions from the sale.
Nigel Keane thought it should be a teen centre. Tim Jones agreed and it became an election issue.
Neither of them were elected and in the new term no decision was made until an opportunity presented to ingratiate the Mayor with the militia crowd.
When the announcement was made about the lease with the militia, the Mayor remarked . "Now the kiddies will have a place" I assumed she meant the army cadets.That was in September of 2010.
The rent was $139Ks a year. We were not told we would be spending in excess of $200Ks to make it ready for the militia nor that we would be responsible for the building's maintenance.
When I asked in March ,during budget discussions. what column the rental revenue would show, We were informed there hadn't been any until February 1st.
I heard afterwards the former Mayor had amended the lease, after the Minister was supposed to have signed it and after the election, when she was defeated.
The lease was put forward until February 2011. two months after the new council took office.
Now a consultant is being paid to examine space needs of works department and parks department with a view to spending twelve million dollars on a new facility.
We will have less than seventy thousand people at build-out as opposed to the current fifty-four thousand ,but never mind, we are currently adding staff complement and space to accommodate them as if there is no tomorrow.
The militia will have a building for "the kiddies" to play in which would have accommodated the Leisure Services Department; offices, board room, parking, landscaping plus an electrically charged security fence around the yard.
Saturday 24 September 2011
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CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG without the music -
Is this properly another example of the former's malfeasance?
What militia are you referring to? Those with the $300 admission, or others.
We should have this information so we can better understand the role of Canada's Defence Force in Aurora.
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