62% Facility Maintenance Going to Arena Expansion

In a postscript to his April 12 letter to the editor Murray Mitchell says 'It seems in the last year all our town buildings have become no good or unuseable. Also, the way they were run or used has been changed. Come on, let's use some common sense.'

This council raised taxes to create the Facility Maintenance Fund to fix the town buildings that were either no good or unuseable. Those 47 buildings cannot be in too bad a shape because council is allocating 62% of the fund ($185,000 per year) for the next 20 years to the yet to be built St Marys Arena Expansion. (see Supporting Project Operations)