Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Shades Of The Past":
Space for the Farmers' Market meeting, I can see, for the present. But The Rangers have the old Hydro Building, do they not
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You have missed the point entirely.
Any organization can apply to use meeting rooms in the town hall...and pay a user fee like everyone else.
By Councillors booking the space , the user fee as bypassed and favoured organizations get to use the space free.
I don't know how long this has been going on. Or if it has happened before in this term.
I do know that in 2006 ,I offered a workshop of several sessions to voters contemplating candidacy in the upcoming election and the usual suspects on council were pretty uptight about the Council chamber being used for an ulterior purpose.
No fees were charged. I volunteered my time for what I thought was a helpful community purpose.
Nobody told me then I had a right to book the chamber free to allow it to be used by a favoured organizations to escape paying the user fee.
How could that pass in the light of day to be enscribed as a town policy?
Yet, apparently it has.
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