By Pepper Parr
May 20th, 2022
BURLINGTON, ON
There is just something not quite right about the sale and purchase of the Bateman High School property.
It is monumentally expensive.
It brought about the sanctioning of a council member based on a complaint by two other Council members.
Councillor Stolte was docked five days’ pay for talking publicly about something that was discussed in a CLOSED session of Council – a no no in the municipal world.
Councillors Nisan and Galbraith filed a complaint to the Integrity Commissioner. The issue was related to comments about the sale of the Bateman high school property n property.
Then there is an announcement that there will be a land swap – the city would sell the sports field to the west of Central High school to the Halton District School Board – the proceeds of that sale would go towards paying for the Bateman property owned by the public Board of Education.
A Gazette reader sent us a couple of tweets that were sent yesterday.
Here we have Lynne Crosby talking to someone with concerns and questions.. Civil enough
But then the following appears.
Were these meant to be assuring words?
Is Councillor Sharman offside on this? He isn’t just a citizen with an opinion – he is a councillor with all kinds of inside information that a lot of people would like to hear him expand on.
Our faithful reader said: “My take is that the city has too much invested in this already to walk away. Look how they spent dollar after dollar for the pier to nowhere with no accessibility to the upper area for those who cannot walk up the stairs.
“Residents will never know the true cost of the Bateman project.
“Someone suggested to me that one of the reasons why so few people are entering the Municipal race is because they don’t want to have to work with our current Mayor, and presently no one is really challenging her.”
The social media types and their networks are going crazy over the Bateman high school and Central High school sports field matter. Amidst all this there is chatter over it all being a done deal
Don’t think it is a done deal and there might be a chance that it will fall apart.
