The debate continues ad nauseum
As noted in the previous post a resolution to reject the frink tenders is on the agenda for the next Cobourg Council meeting. There is also a formality, for Council, a letter from Malcolm Wardman is placed on the agenda and then consigned to the bureaucratic garbage bin - it is accepted as information (in other words Councillors may read it if they want to and then are allowed to forget it ever existed). The letter is not attached to the agenda but we have obtained a copy and it is here as well some of the remarks of the correspondent (not Malcolm Wardman) are noted below; the best part of the present argument is bolded - a very good question and something that the four dead white men should be held accountable for, I think it works out to $625,000 taxpayers dollars they have personally wasted.
"Hello Ben:
Thanks for staying on top of the frink story.Your readers may be interested in the attached early version of a letter signed by Malcolm Wardman. Apparently the Town has agreed to read the final version of his letter out loud at Tuesday’s council meeting. Hopefully it will be published in Tuesday’s Cobourg Daily Star. I believe that it also has been submitted to Northumberland News.
It points out that the lowest frink bid of $1.65M is only part of the story. There’s a potential extra $350,000 to be paid by the taxpayers, bringing the total to as much as $2M. This includes about $150,000 to Totten Sims Hubicki and an estimated $200,000 for overruns and items either left out of the tender or mentioned in the tender but not bid on.
Your readers may not be aware that the entire cost of developing the park to date is about $2.5M. This includes acquiring the property; completing the remediation of it; building the harbour wall, parking lots and related walkways; opening up and landscaping around the old creek; and building the oval paver walkways and installing the drainage system for the natural rink.
If the frink project somehow goes ahead, however, the total cost of the park will approach $5M.
This means that we would be almost doubling the cost of the park simply to install a miniscule patch of ice. How can this possibly be justified?"
The correspondent goes on to say that they decided to have Malcolm represent them as he has the same qualifications - a P. Eng., as the Town's Director of Engineering. That does knock down the argument that the objectors don't have the expertise to challenge the Town!
As titled the debate continues.
Another story
Chris Pelletier has set up a web site here a slice of life in Northumberland County and having more time on his hands than us has kept on top of local issues with wire stories, one of his links is about the advance polls here
Now is that a good figure or a bad one?
"Hello Ben:
Thanks for staying on top of the frink story.Your readers may be interested in the attached early version of a letter signed by Malcolm Wardman. Apparently the Town has agreed to read the final version of his letter out loud at Tuesday’s council meeting. Hopefully it will be published in Tuesday’s Cobourg Daily Star. I believe that it also has been submitted to Northumberland News.
It points out that the lowest frink bid of $1.65M is only part of the story. There’s a potential extra $350,000 to be paid by the taxpayers, bringing the total to as much as $2M. This includes about $150,000 to Totten Sims Hubicki and an estimated $200,000 for overruns and items either left out of the tender or mentioned in the tender but not bid on.
Your readers may not be aware that the entire cost of developing the park to date is about $2.5M. This includes acquiring the property; completing the remediation of it; building the harbour wall, parking lots and related walkways; opening up and landscaping around the old creek; and building the oval paver walkways and installing the drainage system for the natural rink.
If the frink project somehow goes ahead, however, the total cost of the park will approach $5M.
This means that we would be almost doubling the cost of the park simply to install a miniscule patch of ice. How can this possibly be justified?"
The correspondent goes on to say that they decided to have Malcolm represent them as he has the same qualifications - a P. Eng., as the Town's Director of Engineering. That does knock down the argument that the objectors don't have the expertise to challenge the Town!
As titled the debate continues.
Another story
Chris Pelletier has set up a web site here a slice of life in Northumberland County and having more time on his hands than us has kept on top of local issues with wire stories, one of his links is about the advance polls here
Now is that a good figure or a bad one?
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