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In the "Cobourg Blog" here there is an article about the revised plan for the "frink". The history of this item is blurry but the upshot is that it will consume about $2 million dollars to build. On Monday evening the Council will vote on a revised plan, one that will keep the project below $2.4 million. The ironic part of this financial boondoggle is that as the costs go up, due to inflation and the lack of available contractors, the revising of the plan to fit the price leads to reductions of scope. What a display of "more for less"!
Anyway John Draper describes the revised plan as a concrete pad with an artifact in the middle. This artifact may or not be a fountain, but it is still an ugly P.O.S.
The sad part about all of this, according to local "frink" expert - Martin Partidge - is that a natural ice rink is already part of the park, all we have to do is fill with water and let it freeze naturally. Just like those rinks in Donegan Park and the private pad right next to Councillor MacCaughey's house on Henry St. Having an ice rink in the park can be done for nothing, but will be subject to the vagaries of the weather. The Mayor, once the concrete is in can be praised and damned at the same time: praised for a year round ice rink in mild weather and damned for the rest of the year for polluting the green space at the waterfront with a patch of useless concrete.
On the subject of the Cobourg blog one should visit it only for the fact that the most verbose of posters have discovered it. A fellow called "poetency" (we all know who he is), and Daniel J Christie have been offering comments faster than the internet can print them. Most entertaining!
But back to the subject of Council's role in the "frink", there is one very disturbing aspect to this. The engineering and development costs have been performed by Totten Sims & Hubicki (TSH) to the tune of about $110,000 dollars. Who has been authorising these payments and what ambiguous motion allowed it to happen? A real cause of concern for all those taxfighters out there
Anyway John Draper describes the revised plan as a concrete pad with an artifact in the middle. This artifact may or not be a fountain, but it is still an ugly P.O.S.The sad part about all of this, according to local "frink" expert - Martin Partidge - is that a natural ice rink is already part of the park, all we have to do is fill with water and let it freeze naturally. Just like those rinks in Donegan Park and the private pad right next to Councillor MacCaughey's house on Henry St. Having an ice rink in the park can be done for nothing, but will be subject to the vagaries of the weather. The Mayor, once the concrete is in can be praised and damned at the same time: praised for a year round ice rink in mild weather and damned for the rest of the year for polluting the green space at the waterfront with a patch of useless concrete.
On the subject of the Cobourg blog one should visit it only for the fact that the most verbose of posters have discovered it. A fellow called "poetency" (we all know who he is), and Daniel J Christie have been offering comments faster than the internet can print them. Most entertaining!
But back to the subject of Council's role in the "frink", there is one very disturbing aspect to this. The engineering and development costs have been performed by Totten Sims & Hubicki (TSH) to the tune of about $110,000 dollars. Who has been authorising these payments and what ambiguous motion allowed it to happen? A real cause of concern for all those taxfighters out there
2 comments:
Really? $110,000.00 to bring us an off-the-shelf fountain that I have often seen inside 2nd rate malls, outside high rise apartment buildings circa mid-1960's.
A fountain? Three basins of overflow? This is quite an expensive bird bath.
Is Martin Partridge now going to lead the citizens' protest against our Council of Merry Jesters?
It's just too pathetic for words. These clowns have a really bad case of the "divine right of kings" don't they?
They could not care less what the serfs think - only those like them who voted them back in, which is the saddest part of the whole sorry spectacle.
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