What In Blazes?????

Tim the Enchanter has left a new comment on your post "Order By Rule":

I think we need to look beyond the petty rules-of-order squabbling and see the bigger issue.
There is no chance in Hades that this council will ever be able to judisciously dispense $33M.

I'm convinced this council is better than the last and is fairly well populated with well-meaning citizens but let's be honest - responsibility for this kind of money is over their pay grade.
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If I choose to write a post about  consequences  if  the rules are misunderstood,  abused or not applied in the manner intended  or how I came to use the disrespectful term SHUT UP to another Councillor I will do so.
The rules are not petty. It's how nine people manage to bring strongly held points of view together and bring about a majority vote in a civilized fashion.
The majority vote doesn't have to be right
It just has to be a majority 
Right or wrong, we all share the consequences which is usually taxes well beyond what they should be.

Therein lies the only equity.

Which brings me to the second point of Tim's not so enchanting point of view.

"Responsibility for this kind of money is beyond their pay grade."

Everything we do as a Council is beyond our pay grade.

Since when has it been suggested  politicians should be paid for what they do.
The Premier of Ontario is paid less than a GTA police chief. or a hospital administrator, for God's sake or maybe even a Regional chairman.
We have a chairman, a police chief and four hospital administrators in York Region alone.
The last hospital administrator had an expense allowance higher than the Premier's salary. 
Who pays  attention to those comparators?
Where's the logic.
The Town of Aurora  struck a  budget of $79 million this year. Who is accountable?  Council? The Administration?
When did  the electorate vote  for the administration? 
By the way, I don't know one  who lives in Aurora or pays our taxes.

Maybe Tim  is really Dan the Man, in charge of  town finances. 
Richmond Hill sold their hydro before we did.  They realized less than two hundred million and more than one hundred.
They built a Performing Arts Centre with almost a hundred million.
They made  a huge contribution to their hospital.A hundred thousand maybe.  I think they still  have  some left. 
Not a whisper of discontent drifted up the Hill to Aurora. 
Never  have I heard  it said  that  Richmond Hill Councillors walk on water.
But  they are paid substantially more than Aurora Councillors They have wards. Responsibility is divied  up amongst them.Does being paid more mean they are worth more?
They have a Councillor who thought it was O.K. to buy a set of golf clubs with his  EXPENSE ALLOWANCE. His argument ?Cheaper  to buy  than rent when he had to go and play in all those  pesky charity golf tournaments.
Next post I will argue  Tim the Enchanter's  strange enchantment  with the competence  of the administration  versus the  right of a  taxpayer to  say!!!!!!
WTF.   I'm not effing well  buying that argument .    
Or words similar  meaning the same.