Karyn … thanks for your note.

Municipalities are required by Provincial law to have balanced budgets. In effect, we are writing that amount off as a bad debt. This results in a deficit that must be funded. […]

In response to Billy Yeh …

You are correct that we (CK) are the landlord. As explained, in this case the landlord held the debt so when the tenant (CCTA) went into receivership, the landlord couldn’t recover […]

Jay … thanks for the question.

It’s not a matter of needing to upgrade equipment at the Capitol. Rather, the need is to fill some gaps in equipment that is not currently available at the Capitol. Up to now, […]

In response to Billy Yeh …

As outlined on pages 12 and 13 of our report, CK’s total contribution to the $20M asset was $5.425M. $1M was a straight donation made a number of years ago and the balance of $4.425M […]

Bob … please refer to the “Transfer of the Capitol Theatre to St Clair College” discussion forum. If you follow our link to the report on Council’s agenda tonight, you’ll see a detailed explanation of the […]

Hi everyone. There seems to be a misunderstanding as to what we mean by idling the Kiwanis Theatre. This email, in Q & A format, is meant to give background information regarding that decision. We hope it […]

Hi everyone. Our procurement policy is as follows:

1) There must be an approved budget in place for the good or service to be initiated.
2) Anything over $40,000 requires a tendering process.
3) Any tender […]

Student 1.26 asked “What’s our budget and are we predicted to exceed it?”

Response:
The municipal budget is approximately $260M. This does not include our Public Utilities Commission (water & wastewater […]

Jeff … thanks for clarifying this.

Bob … the initial information we provided as background to that story was incorrect. We reported on only the meetings where at least one member of Council was absent (19 […]

Derek … Council meets as a committee of the whole to discuss the budget. When the committee comes a decision, they adjourn the committee meeting and immediately enter into a formal Council meeting to consider […]

Hi Bob. We don’t think it’s fair to expect that every Councillor will be able to attend every meeting. The rules say that a Council or committee meeting can proceed if a quorum is present. A quorum is defined […]

Derek … Rob’s post is correct. Thanks Rob.

Hi everyone. Last night, at their 8th budget meeting, Council finalized the 2012 budget. The end result was a 2.3% increase. The final vote confirmed how challenging this year’s budget was …it passed by an 8 […]

Hi everyone. Here’s an update on the 2012 budget process after week two of Council discussions. A total of three weeks have been scheduled.

As outlined previously, we tabled a draft 2012 budget that did two […]

Quite awhile ago, John posted the following question:

“On page 4 of the draft budget there is a chart depicting a total of $257,800,000 and that 44.3% or $114,205,400 of this is employee related. Can you post […]

Bill … our management team is part of the non union group. In a previous post relating to our 8 unionized groups we stated “we’re going to continue to respect the negotiation process we have with our labour […]

John … I can assure you that you have a Council that fights for the citizens of CK. Why not come out and see for yourself how they are working through this challenging process? Budget Committee meetings […]

Derek … thanks for the question. We can’t publicly disclose the provision that is currently remaining in our budget for that purpose since it would compromise this year’s negotiations. Be assured though … […]

John … thanks for the question. As stated in previous posts, a wage freeze for unsettled contracts is one of the options on the table. Having said that, we’re going to continue to respect the negotiation process we have with our labour groups and not comment on details of that process publicly.