Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Pomp and Circumstance":
Since the Town of Aurora is great at providing such sweet deals to groups like the Rangers and the CC. How about some sharing with private businesses.
Posted by Anonymous to Our Town and Its Business at 6 March 2015 at 11:12
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Development charges are set by Bylaw . Come to think of it I do not recall an exemption to the bylaw being passed by concil to allow an exemption from fees for St.Andrew's College.
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The College is private business. The fee is supposed to be deferred until the property sold. What a bunch of bafflegab that was. I 'd be surprised if the agreement is registered against title of the property.
I noticed recently the Salvation Army will also be exempted.It means Aurora taxpayers will make a charitable donation to the value of tens of thousands of dollars to the Sally Ann
On the other hand,during the Mormac administration the Separate School Board had to pay development levies for a permit to construct St Maximilian Kolbe High School.
No other municipality in the Region does that. The board gets its revenue from taxpayers In effect, Aurora taxpayers were paying the town a development levy to build a school to serve the taxpayers within the municipality.
The town guessed the value of the property and charges were calculated accordingly.
The Board appealed the figure to the OMB and won the appeal .
The town had to refund thousands of dollars plus pay legal fees to fight the appeal.
Nothing was accomplished in the interest of the town'.. A goodly portion of the.levy was swallowed up in
utter stupidity of the exercise. The motive ? I would say, empowerment referred to in a comment.
The administration were well aware of all that when St. Andrew's asked for a waiverof the fee . It was their job to advise Council of precedents and implications of disregarding town.legislation.
They never did. The decision was enabled by staff.
Of course it might have made no difference. They are such a bunch of no-mind suck-ups. Logic has no place in their scheme of things.
Integrity and equity are merely old-fashioned concepts. .
The obvious question is why they do stuff like that? It would be reasonable to be suspicious. .
But no ...what you have here are people with no sense of politics' People who believe being elected is about empowerment.
It is not about keeping faith with the people who elected them. .
As the saying goes:
It's not corruption you have to worry about. It's stupidity.
ReplyDeleteCould you please redo this post as it comes out with tiny letters in some spots and normal sized ones in others.
I do not have a microscope.
Thanks.
It's awfully hard to read that. I think from what I did get that we support a lot of different groups without really informing residents. And I did not see the Food Pantry on the list even though that might receive some approval if it were a modest amount.
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