Good Morning,
1. Second phase
of Golf Links Road being debentured for approx. 8 million dollars. This could
have come out of the TB Renew fund instead of directing all of the 23 million in
this fund towards the proposed Event Centre.
2. The average homeowner is looking at an
extra $114 dollars on their water bill to cover infrastructure upgrades. A
report prepared for city council say Thunder Bay must spend about $170 million
over 2 decades on capital projects plus another $10 million in the next 5 years
for new storm sewers.
The report says increasing the surcharge would
allow the city to stop using debt for large sewer projects.
A Thunder Bay sewer rate surcharge may spike to
help replace pipes.
It is beyond me how we can rob the gas tax fund
over the next 10 years of about $21 million dollars to help pay for a proposed
Event Centre when our infrastructure is crumbling and taxpayers have been
stretched to the limit.
3. Mr. Commisso states in his funding report that
the city should receive $9.5 million for naming rights and private sector
funding. The average arena in the OHA is about $1.5 for naming rights that is
paid over a 10 year period.
Do you recall that the skateboard park at the
Marina was going to raise $100,000 to help offset the cost of the $1 million
dollar skateboard park? They were going to sell bricks with the sponsors name
being recognized. You can go see just how many donators they got. There is a
pathetic little wall with a few names. They sure and hell didn't raise
anywhere close to $100,000 dollars.
4. Interesting to see the taxpayers are going to be
on the hook to pay for the relocation of the Hydro Sub Station should the
proposed Event Centre move ahead. Thunder Bay Hydro plans to ask the Ont.
Energy board to approve a fee increase from city taxpayers to cover this
expense.
Anyway the list goes on and on as city hall
continues to increase the city debt, taxes, waterbills and as they cut many of
the services they shouldn't be.
Ray
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