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January 15^th	Third look at Council meeting
	Big Picture or pettifog?

I see I have been running off in wrong directions & try here to re-focus

Strike Imminent?

Shelves in local store bare of any fresh produce/ pastry/ meats – for the last strike see my previous and Unions last update – And earlier Overwaitea strike in 2001

Presumably the equipment now stored upstairs where it will eventually be set up –as per image right (modified from agenda package) ---- When staff learned I was not from a bona fide newspaper they refused to let me go up to take a picture ----- Hey all I wanted was to get a sense of where the equipment was to go

In agenda package last meeting was the ‘healthy heart’ equipment

I have only taken a few of the inventoried items here showing originally many items donated by community groups
See earlier on closing Healthy Heart at mall etc – and where City Staff get free passes to civic center etc

Donated Equipment

The Agenda package informs us that up to 50T$ will be needed to properly install equipment (fans, electrical etc) – Will equipment be open to public (or just City Staff as per free use of gym etc

Golf Course and our tax $$$

See previous where I go off pettifogging

Discussion hinges upon ‘operating grant’ versus ‘partnering agreement’

I have tried to ask politicians, city staff etc if the 72,500$ reported at last Council meetings ‘operating grants’ report out was the total or was there still some 50T$ ‘partnering agreement’ Seems only Howie knows for sure, but the extended paperwork handed out at Council meetings says that item was dealt with and the $72.5T is the final figure

		Perhaps unfair to use Golf Courses preliminary financial statement for 2009
These details cloud the larger picture of whether the Golf Course is viable without extensive public support as in taxpayer subsidy --- Same may be asked about Civic Center/ swimming pool etc	First note how relatively little revenue the golf course had and looks to me like they did not even include in ‘audit’ the 50T$ ‘partnering agreement’
	See my earlier where discuss ‘Core Services’ in 2004 another period of belt tightening – and especially where we started moving from Citizen directed (here the disbanding of the Recreation committee) to Staff free hand (Customers or Citizens approach)

	No it is not a new development
	Presumably digging up buried oil tanks (which I had seen leaking oil since Innlander condemned and finally removed

	Rules are for the Customers not the real people
	There are three sign violations here --- but hey it is for a good cause --- and it is only temporary – so we will turn a blind eye (until a mere Citizen should put up a dangerous street sign blocking pedestrian traffic etc)

Created by LG on14/1/2010

Last updated on Friday, January 15, 2010

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For earlier materials see Table of Contents

Third look at Council meeting

Golf Course and our tax $$$