Sunday #1
The controversy about the Community Centre Fundraising, will probably die down after Monday night. At the next Council meeting a motion will be adopted that apporoves the hiring of "The Fundraising Network" for $75.000 plus disbursements. In a conversation with the BurdReport the coordinator of special events, for the Town of Cobourg, Lara Scott, revealed that this Company has been in business since 1999 and are Toronto based. The partner that has been assigned to Cobourg is from Kingston. His name was not given as it will not be public until Monday evening. So the question of the value of the disbursements may become an issue if he insists on commuting to Cobourg to complete his duties. But the bigger issue of not getting substantial support because some segments of the community believe that this money is a waste of time, has been ameliorated as the original estimate for the work to be done was $150,000. But some heavy hitters and donors think that the money being spent here, from donations, is a total waste of money., it should be completed using local "champions". In addition although the Staff has signed off on this RFP and declared to to be consistent with Town Policy, some local fundraisers, who might have submitted to the Committee claim that the scope of the RFP was too extensive to be responded to in the time allowed for a turnaround. They think that despite what the CAO says about the process the fix was in, before it even started.
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I see that Northumberland Today is reporting the outcome just as the Burd Report outlined in this post, except the reporter did not give us the Kingston based fund raiser's name. Whether the name would ring any bells with us rubes who will be paying him is unknown.
According to this story, Councillor Bill the Blob McDonald took advantage of the occasion to berate Councillor Mutton for having the nerve to ask an inconvenient question about disbursements. He was joined by staffer Peacock who felt it was his duty to belittle her just a bit more, to be sure she got the point.
They continue to remind me of little boys who are terrified of allowing a girl into their sacred club house.
Pathetic, as usual.
Predictable, as always.
I like Councillor Mutton. She is guaranteed my vote this time next year.
Ben, are you running?
In Ted Amsden's photo of the groundbreaking you can see Rhonda Cunningham. Does that answer the question Ben asked way back when: will either of the rolodexes of the 2 best fundraisers in town going to be involved? Maybe yes. Maybe no. She has a knack of getting in every photograph in any media that's going.
Yes indeed RC does appear but the roladex question is still valid, will it be opened to the CCC fundraising or will the roladexes be selectively culled to preserve the best donors for the hospital and the UW?
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