Stolz – do your damn homework first and get your flippin sponsors in line, then bring it to the table. Between a selected few on this council the tax payers of this city are getting gouged.

What’s wrong? Don’t we have enough things going on in this City to waste our tax dollars?

Hey Cheetos, can you provide complimentary Cheetos for afternoon breaks? That will be a $1,500 donation ….. and you name will be on every bag …… ;-)

You would think they would have the exact information before risking our hard earned tax dollars.

I read that the city of london is also going after this and they expect it to cost about $50,000.

Not to worry, the london report I read also mentioned that the bidding cities have to show a commitment to environmental sustainability. That fact alone will push PG to the bottom. Since the mayor and council axed the entire environmental division last year, it isn’t likely they will get this conference, but what the heck, they might as well waste more time and a few thousand dollars putting together a bid just to be able to say they tried.

It is called poor business planning and yet another example of waste at city hall.

Unreal, Stoltz and other peoples money…like a fad kid gobbling Smarties. Surprised he hasn’t tried to bring a Comic-Con to PG too…but then I guess that would be a conflict of interest.

Someone should ask that Gail Vasquez to look at the books to see if this is affordable.
Money, money, money,. The state of downtown is horrendous and you want to show the world your biggest embarrassment. LOL paint on a pig.:{ what a waste.

Can we get off the hosting bandwagon,,,jesus christ what else do they have to host? dont make me bring out my cupcake pan,,,,,lol

If we don’t host it, they will make sure they send a huge delegation that will go to promote the 2015 Games – probably cost the same. Ha!

Of all the nerve and just nauseating.

Stolz says it is an ‘honour and a privilege’ to host this conference…..

You know what is an honour and a privilege Councillor Stolz?

Sharing this community with groups, organizations and the legions of volunteers that grease their wheels, such as the Habitat for Humanity group that approached you to have fees waived…fees that is revenue the City would never even have on the table if not for their good works. Or the little railroad at Exploration Place; there was not even an additional $1,500 bucks without an almost hour long yapping round the table, hemming and hawing about the whether we can afford it. You all shamed the Homebuilders Association group when they asked for help with a piece that the CITY REQUESTED to have incorporated into the overall event. A negligible amount I recall.

For the PGX’s 100th….not even five bucks (or an acknowledgement from her worship – no “good news story” there)…an event that brings in more people than Frizzel’s conference, Stolz’s conference AND the CWG all rolled together FOR FREE labour supplemented by a small amount of City staff time and NO grants or other funding from the City.

Do your homework Stolz and bring to the table what you expect from your invested community groups that live, work, raise families, pay taxes and volunteer here…have it all in place before you waste anyone’s time. Must be nice to have more than your allotted ten minutes and the chequebook handy, in your position as Finance and Audit chair.

Would love to know where the MILLIONS and MILLIONS and MILLIONS of sponsorship dollars are coming from for the City B-day party, the CWG and two conferences all within the next two years. One shot deals – all of them.

Just like the majority of this Council.

Well at least somebody is getting it, I was starting to think I was taking crazy pills, good post BCnorth250.

That’s a good one Gus….I’ll see what I can do, even if it is a little cheesy ;)

Most of the people we vote into council have a business (or two). That in itself is a conflict of interest. Lots to gain and nothing to lose.

“Well at least somebody is getting it, I was starting to think I was taking crazy pills, good post BCnorth250.”

Really? I was thinking that we need a few less organizations with their hands out looking for tax breaks and fee waivers. Clearly we have too many as it stands now.

We actually agree Johnnybelt, but probably differ as to the definition of the “few less organizations”….

I don’t mind a portion of our tax dollars going into support local based initiatives…community spirit and all that …as they are generally offset by a huge investment of volunteer labour, community support (sponsorship: cash or in kind, tickets sold) and the like where in actuality the ask from the City is usually the smallest part of the whole picture but still an important wedge of the pie chart.

So for say $50K we can pay for a three day conference for 500 suits to sweep in and out….

Or for the same amount we could assist to
build house for a deserving family, keep the little train going in the park all summer that is always loaded with kids and visitors, assist with the program at the Home Show (back every year for more than 50 years) and show a little love to the fair people….all volunteer based, community supported, invested…blah blah you get my drift.

Anyway, I prefer the latter and failing that, then you have my support, make it none at all.

Well I guess we all need to ask ourselves what kind of a community we all want to live in! I am certainly not advocating opening up the City coffers to every organization with their hat in hand. However, the groups that bcnorth refrences clearly are not the same old same old.In fact I would suggest that the organizartion refrenced have vary rarely if at all been before Council seeking help. I mean the Fort George museam was seeking 1500.00 c’mon.

Stolz has to get something. His feeling are probably still hurt his dike got shot down. 50 grand from the taxpayer is a lot cheaper than his 10 million dollar dike.