When ever I went to an auction...I bid and paid that day....
They said this was a public auction on the net...I couldn't find it.
Now they can decide a few weeks later if they can even buy the bear....Shouldn't have been bears they were selling....Fish would be much more apporiate with the smell of this auction....
Oh well the bigger boys got to donate their wears and will still be able to get there favours....
Politics......can really....upset a guy at times.....*LOL*

And they bought one of the ugliest ones too...

Maybe they got it at a deal as probably no one else wanted it.

Maybe it can take over as mayor when Kinsley is off on one of his tours....

This purchase has an odor attached to it.
An auction is an immediate sale-and one pays prior to leaving the auction site.
The city can wait a month and then make the decision whether to purchase????
There is something radically wrong with this scenario?
Did all other successful bidders have the same month to make their decision re a purchase?
How rotten can it get at Prince George City Hall?
Eventually the stink will go world wide, but Prince George residents are accustomed to foul air.
What will end up being their "claim to fame?"

I can't answer that Trusted...
But in my opinion they have made some very, shall I say , silly , for lack of words that might cause hard feelings, decisions.

I didn't vote for some of them, and i will really have to look,in the near future...
at the ones I did...
They soon forget.... I don't.

I suspect that they could put it in the Civic Centre as it is empty 75/80% of the time, and under utilized for the balance. It will even have less use once the Sports Centre opens.

All the conventions from around the world that were going to come to Prince George once we built this Civic Centre never seemed materialize, in fact I suspect we have less conventions now than we had 10 years ago, but who cares? Does anyone ever take responsibility for these boondoogles.

We have the Multi Plex to worry about now,(Loses $350,000.00 per year) and then we will have the Sport Centre, only God knows how they will run that facilty, or who will pick up the tab.

The bear can stand in the Civic Centre to remind us how we have this great ability in Prince George to waste taxpayers money. On the other hand we could put it in the Multi Plex and then show it on the $800,000.00 replay board during intermissions so that the Hockey fans can cheer it. Or may we could change the name of the Cougers to the **Spirit Bears** and this could be their mascot.

Maybe we should put it in Kinsley's office and let it make decisions?

Better yet-put it at the Tourist Info Centre on 1st Ave.
Might as well let the "white bear" join the "white elephant."

The *white elephant* on 1st Ave was built I beleive around 1971, and is just a little older that the Police Station on 8th and Brunswick.

About the time the City was buying the CN Building on first Avenue for Initiatives Prince George and the Tourist centre, it was saying that we need a new Police Station because the one we have was getting to old, it was built around 1973.

Its all about spending taxpayers money.

The CN Building was designed to go to 8 stories, and when it was built there was some expectation that the City would grow. It never went beyond two stories.

The last high rise office building built in Prince George I beleive was the Westel building on 2nd and Victoria about 15/20 years ago. This give you some indication of the actual growth taking place.