City acting as landlord, in order to do that you must stay on top of repairs. Let's not forget 4 decades of blame on Vikkyville, and letting the James Whalen sink, waited 20 years to make repairs to the conservatory. Let's see how well they do as landlords.
So the city spent three years waffling about the homelessness issue, a key campaign promise from the mayor, and after three years of bickering they pick to use two north side parks , the empty lot running along the Kam on Fort William Rd makes more sense, yet it didn't take them long to all agree on a pay hike! Shameful. Wake up ppl come civic election don't vote for familiar names.
What their doing is called squatting, and yes they can be removed. They do it in Edmonton my brother helped take down two encampments with the issues they had in 2022
Yet again if the city had done maintenance over the years rather than finger pointing going back 43 yrs as to whose fault things were, it wouldn't need to happen . It was actually the nicest looking if the malls and had a great food court. I guess boomers will be happy to finally have the stop sign and left turn gone. Since I've heard complaining about it for 3 decades.
If anything , reopen part of the old LPH as a hostel for the homeless. No sense bringing in shelters on taxpayer dime. They won't fix the James whalin, but found funds for this project.
Maybe move to town then. The teachers who live in town that work at rural schools don't want to risk their life on an icy day cuz you "couldn't wrap it up".
If the city maintained items it never would have come to this. All we have is waffling. 40 yrs of neglect at Vikkiville as they looked to blame rather than maintain, now we have a historical item, to be scrapped, how many times does this require a meeting. Also if a scrap dealer is purchasing an item to recycle why is there a price tag to the city. It's on them to purchase and remove, best option would be kept dry docked at the Alexander Henry, and maybe find volunteers to make some repairs like the caboose.
Well, we should write a book, on how to not run a city. Citizens keep electing perfect ppl well versed in this ability. Turning it over to the museum would have been the best option. Also why is council so dead set against reducing amount of councillors, and admin. It's time to make some changes.