I was at Ikea. A news flash came on the radio as we drove home.:
A pedestrian was struck.
Police report a ninety-four year old man was hit as he was running across the road.
He was slightly injured by a vehicle driven by a fifty-seven year man
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Stupiidity
and Cupidity Go Hand In Hand":
"Staff and maintenance of any public
facility are the cost of operating the facility."
Yet, you always add the
cost of maintenance at the Church Street School.
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Ahhh!!!! Now I understand what it is the poster does not understand.
Thanks for giving me another opportunity to explainan
insane arrangement that does not serve the community's interest.
The town does not operate Church Street School.
It provides funds to cover operation. It transfers a building rent free, pays to maintains the building , pilfers thousands of tax-payers dollars from the treasury to the coffers of the board.
The building had millions of dollars of hydro reserve money invested into it .
It is currently leased to a separate autonomous self-appointed governing body, created for the purpose, on the pretext they can operate the space at no cost to the taxpayer.
In concurrent contradiction of the principle,the lease requires rent of $1.00 a year .
No pretext of recovering money invested to keep the building standing and the weather out for the past fifty years
Or the latest 2,3 million plus three quarters of a million heritage grant, invested to create a state of the art musuem to replace the one in previous occupation for twenty-seven years. .
To add to the lunacy, the town pays all costs of maintenance for the building.
In the first year calculated at $143,000 a year increasing since at no less than 3% each year. .Likely close to $150,000 in 2012. .
Here again, no pretext at self-sufficiency to justify independent operation by self-appointed autonomous governance. .
To add to the foolishness, the town has a second agreement to "purchase" culture from the independent,self-appointed, autonomous board which meets in secret.and has little more space to program than a luxury family home in the town of Aurora.
The first agreement paid the board a sum of $340.000 a year for culture. Instead of decreasing by revenue earned, it rose by 3% each year to $380,000in 2012.
The persistent poster is quite wrong in arguing while cost of maintenance for the Cultural Centre is included but for the Seniors Centre ,,,not.
Excluding any calculation for cost recovery for millions spent to keep building upright and weatherproof and providing less than thirteen per cent of programmable space, Church Street School costs the taxpayers in excess of half a million dollars a year to fund as opposed to $270,000 for six times more space, serving a membership of 1371 seniors and other permited groups using the space for similar purpose as the school and paying user fees to the town.
If that explanation is not clear, I will be glad to repeat it.
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Tuesday 18 December 2012
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6 comments:
The problem is not with your explanation but rather the way it is frame -- you have your blog followers believing that all this money is given away to a select few who have some sort of private club -- in fact the contract and agreement have the Cultural Centre providing services to the citizens of urora on behalf of the municipality -- it's OK to not like the model that is based on but the services are for the citizens all -- not a select few. The same as arenas, the recreation facilities etc
11:04 AM
" Your Blog follows believing......"
Sorry. We know exactly to whom the money is going and for what services. The people receiving the building and funding do not themselves provide the services. They use Aurora's taxpayer money to employ others and use volunteers in the program. They are simply expensive middle-persons who present themselves as Patrons of Culture.
And saying that it is " the same as arenas, the recreation facilities etc." is simply hooey. There is no accountability and clearly no desire to contribute to the tax base of the Town or to becoming self-sufficient.
As a ' blog follower ' I take umbrage at your assertion that we all think alike.
12:32pm...
"As a ' blog follower ' I take umbrage at your assertion that we all think alike."
Perhaps 11:04 should have said "Your blog contributors believing..." because it seems as though all of those that contribute have the same view.
Name a local non-profit organization with at least $100,000 socked away in a Contingency Fund & still requiring/ demanding free rent and funding. Is that even legal?
I'm a "blog follower" and 12:32 PM and I certainly don't think alike, but I know what you mean, 11:04AM.
6:56 PM
Of course you would understand that comment. Your work.
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