Been listening to last week's delegations over the last few days. There are so many things to go through, but two things stuck out.
Whenever someone talks about the leaking roof, Menard points out that fixing the roof is part of OSEG's obligations in the current contract, and then the speaker and certain councillors get offended.
The other thing is when someone points out that the 1.0 waterfall and profits never materialized, so why should we believe that 2.0 will be different, and then the Mayor counters with "why should it profit? we don't expect community centres and Adisoke, which is fully paid by tax payers (which it is not) profit", yet the entire business case revolves around profit, and it's only going to cost $130 million because of, amongst other things, profit. Can't have it both ways.
I want to bring up Slush Puppie in Gatineau. That is a true partnership with the private sector, as not only are they maintaining the building (like, for real), but also contributed to the capital cost:
The costs were divided among the three partners:
– VMSO: $16 million
– Loan from Investissement Québec to VMSO: $21 million
– Government of Quebec: $26.5 million
– City of Gatineau: $37.9 million
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