On Monday night, Keith Hobbs is introducing a resolution under new business to have administration bring back a report to council on how he can proceed with a proposed event centre with Lakehead University as the anchor tenant.
Council should defer Hobbs’s resolution request for a week so that the public will have knowledge of his intention Monday night, which he tries to sneak in under new business.
Council in June deferred on how to proceed with the proposed event centre until they received more information on infrastructure funding from the provinces Building Up Ontario Program.
Maybe the mayor can inform us if a proposed event centre is eligible for that source of funding?
We all know how the proposed event centre was not eligible under the Building Canada Fund, so let’s not repeat the same mistake again, and waste administration’s time to prepare a report when provincial funding may not be available.
And does Hobbs really want to use Federal Gas Tax monies with our infrastructure deficit and level of taxation on a proposed event centre?
This resolution is monkey business not new business!
Henry Wojak,
Thunder Bay
