He's not excluded. He's one of the directors at that cultural centre.
Posted by Anonymous to Our Town and Its Business at 16 April 2016 at 18:05
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That's interesting. The Culture Centre Board chooses directors from applicants. The former Councillor was always a staunch supporter of pirating the museum out from under.
Two members are directors appointed from Council to attend private meetings. Councillors Humfreys and Thom are without requirement to report to Council . Despite upwards of a million dollars of public funds transferred to program the facility annually.
Under the Municipal Act, Councillors are prohibited from conducting public business behind closed doors except for specific items.
Membership in a corporate body , in their capacity as Municipal Councillors, is not an exception within the Act.
Situation tentacles reach back into Statutary authority of the Municipal Clerk and responsibility of the Town Solicitor / Directof of Corporate Affairs.
Note the news this week, the Culture Precinct Plan has hit the skids. To a packed public meeting in Victoria Hall, the new CAO has announced the plan will not go forward as is and first step is to remove it from the Parks and Recreation program.
Perchance, there will be a hint of how it got in there in the first place.
The CAO's office might be interesting while he tries to makes sense of the muddle ...or not.
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I won't be able to visit the Home Show. I need the scooter for travel.
My children are busy with family affairs at the week-end. I don't make demands. The go-go scooter is
In the car trunk all the time but has to be taken out and put together for me to use it and taken apart and loaded up again when the tour is over.
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"Despite upwards of a million dollars of public funds transferred to program the facility annually."
ReplyDeleteI think you'll find that it's more in the range of $375K.
21:39
DeleteCurious to know...Where did you get that $ figure?
What IS interesting is that you didn't know that. Maybe you're not as plugged-in as you thought you were?
ReplyDeleteHow "it got there" is easy.
ReplyDeleteThe Cultural Precinct was Tom and Michael.
21:39. 21:42, 22:24, 23:04
ReplyDeleteWere you imbibing last night ? Too many martinis ?
Sorry 9:50
DeleteJust ask them.
It did 100 percent come from Tom and Michael.
23:04, that was last year's total that I passed on. This year it is around $400K. All of the budget deliberations were covered by The Auroran.
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ReplyDeleteThe use and maintenance of that building must be considered as support that the taxpayers cover.
10:36
ReplyDeleteTrue, but the maintenance of the Town-owned building is the responsibility of the Town, regardless of its use.
The quote was: "Despite upwards of a million dollars of public funds transferred to program the facility annually." Which means that the sum of the grant was grossly inflated (2 ½ times) by the blog host.
The maintenance of the building would have to be made regardless because it is Town owned. But how about rent and utilities?
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ReplyDeleteSez the One-Trick Troll
The care & maintenance of that place might be more appreciated and generate more income is another group[s] were in residence.........sheesh. ..perfectly fit and cannot even shovel their own walks or cut the grass.
The grant is for contacted services within a Town-owned building. The Town is paying for services held in a Town-provided venue.
ReplyDeleteIt really shouldn't be that difficult to understand.
They couldn't even fund the inter-com themselves.
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ReplyDeleteWhy all the bitching?
We're supposed to be investing in infrastructure.
More, not less.
It's good for the economy.
We all saw what a great politician Ballard made after his experience on the board - not.
ReplyDeleteI think that during the last election some of those running might have been penalized because of the suspicion that they came from the Centre.