$200 for a Potted Plant?
Fascinating piece in the Courier today about how City hall has managed to infuriate more small businesses, in this case, in Dunbar.
There is a new Business Improvement Association in the 'hood and it's madly charging about spending money on banners and potted plants. Money that is culled from the mom and pop shops and spent in a pretty vigorous way.
Many of the shops are furious, as they should be.
Read the story here.
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This is yet another story on wasted public expenditure. It seems clear that many in the public sector spend money the way one runs water from a tap: turn it on and it's there. But this money is very precious to us in the private sector who earn it through our sweat & toil.
I think we're headed to an impasse and it's going to be precipitated by an unlikely source: Oil. The cost of a barrel of oil has crossed $100 and is quickly headed for $150. This will affect ALL aspects of our life, not just the cost of filling up one's car.
Even with a reported 25,000 illegal drug ops in Metro Vancouver, I do believe we're reaching a tipping point where enough will truly be enough for most.
There was a very close for the BIA on west 10th area. There is now a vote to continue for more years. The weird thing here is that the paid manager is also the paid manager for Kits. Seems to me like a huge conflict of interest but then that shouldn't surprise me should it?
A conflict of interest in the LaLa Land that is British Columbia. That's pretty much a rite of passage for every public official!
The next time you hear a BC'er say that there's no corruption here in Paradise feel free to laugh in their face, slap them, or call the nearest psychologist!
In a related story to the above Canada Line letter - the Cambie BIA actually had a "thank you" party for the Canada Line officials when the CLCo office moved away from the area at the end of last month.
With the merchants money.
Without including the merchants in this decision.
On the Cambie BIA board? Property owners and representatives for several banks and corporations - including Shato Holdings/White Spot where TransLink Chair Dale Parker was a past President. Not much motivation to demand compensation for the family run shops that are being driven out.
Out of 14 directors, only 3 small businesses.
Most of the directors will benefit from higher land values and development oportunities, or will continue to collect their paycheques, regardless of the business failures all around them.
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