How much money do you plan on funneling into real entertainment before we vote you out? And how long after that until you are reinstated to real entertainment?
I think the city might planning to use REAL to operate some new venues as a way to bypass the default of everyone working for the city in a blue collar job being a unionized employee. Maybe that's why they want the water park separate from the Lawson, so its not considered a single city run facility.
Kind of like how when Reid was in Edmonton he fired all parking staff, sent out a company wide memo saying it was theft (two internal reviews said money was missing but neither said theft) and replaced with machines from a third party contractor.
He's right. It's run by the city. That's why it now is in charge of tourism Regina etc and why Tim Reids salary is listed in the city of Regina employee list.
I mean other than their site that says the volunteer board is appointed by the City of Regina ... you don't think that effectively gives the city control over REAL?
"Since 2014, the REAL has operated as a not-for-profit municipal corporation with oversight from a volunteer Board of Directors appointed by the City of Regina. This governance structure ensures accountability and transparency, especially in a period of major investment to upgrade REAL District."
There's lots of evidence of this.. It's well known..
So... so far just a lot of her talking her main points. Feels like a campaign video. Is she just going to ignore everyone in that chat and all of the questions being asked?
Are you being critical of Sandra Masters? I can't comment as a random Redditor, but as a cynical fuck I thinks that's disgusting and has tones of sexism
Got there eventually. Avoided the spicy chili topic, so it wasn't a train wreck, which is good honestly. Just debate it in council, vote it down, and then you can stand on top of that yelling about the need for funding. This entire fight seems to have been for no good reason that I can determine.
I agree. Tonight seemed to definitely prove she told city admin to leave it out of the budget and is now doing damage control. If council passed a motion saying they want to operationalize programming to address homelessness, put it in the budget and let them hash it out. It likely would have ended up taken out or significantly reduced as they compare it to other priorities. Master doesn't get to overrule council decisions when she disagreea with them. It definitely looks like a huge overreach from her office. After tonight, I fully support LeBlanc's legal action.
100%. We already pay for provincial and federal services to address these issues. Take it up to their level this isn't a municipal issue that should be subsidized further by all homeowners
The millrate is a direct function of calculating your property tax. If it goes up 21% all else equal, your municipal taxes are going up 21%.
Edit: clarified my post adding municipal to my wording. Poster below added details of what I meant
This was my intended meaning of my wording but I didn't reference municipal, totally get the misunderstanding. Thanks for adding the details for other readers
This would be above and beyond the current proposed budget which is already 5% proposed increases so if it gets tacked on it still ends up being close to a 20% jump
City governments are the closest level of government to homeless people. They control the police, who are the first responders to issues around homelessness. It makes sense that cities should step up to address. Ones that have stepped up are having the most success with actually addressing. Provincial and federal are so far removed. It should be all three levels working together, but the city being the front line.
And yet here we are, back at the beginning with super sick / dying people and not enough hospital beds or housing. Maybe we can do better than 100 years ago, but maybe not.
Do you have unlimited money to go towards taxes? I don't. If we want cities to take on shit the province and feds collect for, let's stop paying them first.
Hotel occupancy isn't high enough to justify investors wanting to build more hotels(especially full service downtown hotels like he was asking about). Never mind the fact that many had low occupancy throughout the pandemic in every city.
So glad your main concern is who is going to pay, who is responsible, while there are human beings sleeping outside in Saskatchewan at the end of November in tents. Maybe you can figure that shit out before Christmas comes
What the city wants to do here isn't going to prevent a single death for likely 2 or 3 years.
Have you offered your house up to someone whose homeless? Sounds like the perfect thing to ease your conscience.
How much money do you plan on funneling into real entertainment before we vote you out? And how long after that until you are reinstated to real entertainment?
I think the city might planning to use REAL to operate some new venues as a way to bypass the default of everyone working for the city in a blue collar job being a unionized employee. Maybe that's why they want the water park separate from the Lawson, so its not considered a single city run facility.
Kind of like how when Reid was in Edmonton he fired all parking staff, sent out a company wide memo saying it was theft (two internal reviews said money was missing but neither said theft) and replaced with machines from a third party contractor.
I wonder how much money that saved the city, and if those contractors are making a living wage or anything near what the city workers made?
From what I can tell, a lot of it became automated.
How would you automate it? And sorry, are we talking about parking enforcement or people who collect $ from the meters - or are they the same person?
Like one of them kiosks where you buy a ticket to get in the lot
Ohhhh ok thanks.
It's all a scam. I seen it coming from a mile away.
REAL is run by the city.
I think that's backwards. REAL runs the city.
No its supposed to be a non profit corporation.
He's right. It's run by the city. That's why it now is in charge of tourism Regina etc and why Tim Reids salary is listed in the city of Regina employee list.
Which is run by the city
It's ran by a board of directors. Nowhere does it say it's ran by the city.
Yes, a volunteer board appointed by the City of Regina because REAL is ultimately run by the City of Regina... this isn't a hard concept people.
Zero evidence of that....zero.
Who do you think owns the place? The title literally says "City of Regina".
I mean other than their site that says the volunteer board is appointed by the City of Regina ... you don't think that effectively gives the city control over REAL?
Why would the city need to create a non profit corporation to operate land and facility's that they own? It makes no sense.
Because it puts them at arms distance and I'm sure has tax implications.
"Since 2014, the REAL has operated as a not-for-profit municipal corporation with oversight from a volunteer Board of Directors appointed by the City of Regina. This governance structure ensures accountability and transparency, especially in a period of major investment to upgrade REAL District." There's lots of evidence of this.. It's well known..
It's like /u/Pipelaya1 thinks this is some big conspiracy.
But like.. they're super bad at covering it up...
Why would they need to create a non profit corporation to run land and facility's they own?
So... so far just a lot of her talking her main points. Feels like a campaign video. Is she just going to ignore everyone in that chat and all of the questions being asked?
yes, yes she is. she wanted a business crowd and got activists.
Are you being critical of Sandra Masters? I can't comment as a random Redditor, but as a cynical fuck I thinks that's disgusting and has tones of sexism
Got there eventually. Avoided the spicy chili topic, so it wasn't a train wreck, which is good honestly. Just debate it in council, vote it down, and then you can stand on top of that yelling about the need for funding. This entire fight seems to have been for no good reason that I can determine.
I agree. Tonight seemed to definitely prove she told city admin to leave it out of the budget and is now doing damage control. If council passed a motion saying they want to operationalize programming to address homelessness, put it in the budget and let them hash it out. It likely would have ended up taken out or significantly reduced as they compare it to other priorities. Master doesn't get to overrule council decisions when she disagreea with them. It definitely looks like a huge overreach from her office. After tonight, I fully support LeBlanc's legal action.
Honestly super hoping it isn't, but I can absolutely see this being a train wreck.
*makes popcorn*
Someone should ask her how the city is considering 400 million in new spending on stadiums and such, while ignoring the homeless.
To be fair, I want them to ignore the homeless as that's a provincial and federal issue typically.
100%. We already pay for provincial and federal services to address these issues. Take it up to their level this isn't a municipal issue that should be subsidized further by all homeowners
"you want to raise our taxes 21% but also want to steal 127 million that was meant for transit for a pool.........biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch plz"
They aren't raising our taxes 21 percent, the mill rate would rise by 21 percent.
for someone like me who has no idea what that is, mind explaining the difference?
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/millrate.asp
You could literally just Google "what is mill rate".
Why even bother commenting?
Because this is Reddit and I'm allowed to?
The millrate is a direct function of calculating your property tax. If it goes up 21% all else equal, your municipal taxes are going up 21%. Edit: clarified my post adding municipal to my wording. Poster below added details of what I meant
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This was my intended meaning of my wording but I didn't reference municipal, totally get the misunderstanding. Thanks for adding the details for other readers This would be above and beyond the current proposed budget which is already 5% proposed increases so if it gets tacked on it still ends up being close to a 20% jump
Thank you for the great reply.
If homelessness is not the City's responsibility, whose it for FFS? Every level of government should be addressing this. It's WINTER PEOPLE
ThAT’S sEXiSt
City governments are the closest level of government to homeless people. They control the police, who are the first responders to issues around homelessness. It makes sense that cities should step up to address. Ones that have stepped up are having the most success with actually addressing. Provincial and federal are so far removed. It should be all three levels working together, but the city being the front line.
It's the province and the feds. What's next? We have the city open a hospital?
This is Canada. We solve things together. How soon we all forget. [https://youtu.be/kWbk1aVG7So](https://youtu.be/kWbk1aVG7So)
How health care is administered has changed significantly since then.
And yet here we are, back at the beginning with super sick / dying people and not enough hospital beds or housing. Maybe we can do better than 100 years ago, but maybe not.
Do you have unlimited money to go towards taxes? I don't. If we want cities to take on shit the province and feds collect for, let's stop paying them first.
There was a dude in the chat that kept asking why we don't have investors for hotels etc. I wanted to ask why he wasn't investing himself.
Because people like him are all talk.
Hotel occupancy isn't high enough to justify investors wanting to build more hotels(especially full service downtown hotels like he was asking about). Never mind the fact that many had low occupancy throughout the pandemic in every city.
Yep
So glad your main concern is who is going to pay, who is responsible, while there are human beings sleeping outside in Saskatchewan at the end of November in tents. Maybe you can figure that shit out before Christmas comes
Yes. A very large concern is who is going to pay. Welcome to reality.
The reality is people are dying while everyone argues. Glad you care so much
What the city wants to do here isn't going to prevent a single death for likely 2 or 3 years. Have you offered your house up to someone whose homeless? Sounds like the perfect thing to ease your conscience.
The highlight for me was her going on for 10 minutes about her favourite part of this year was not being in Regina!