Brant Taxpayer Coalition Questions on the expropriation

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EXPROPRIATION QUESTIONS AND A NEED TO KNOW Pass along please
Questions asked
Are we paying too much based on market conditions? Is the $68K per building difference or $2.7 million, a 27% premium that we want to pay at taxpayer expense?

Where are the displaced people- our new dwellers going to go?

If the value is in the land only,should we buy the land not the buildings and save the added cost of demolition ?

Why are we buying dilapidated buildings at a premium to demolish them at Taxpayers expense? What is the Environmental clean up cost? What is the heritage cost? What is the legal cost? What are the contingency costs of the venture?

Why did we not follow the normal council procedure and open the Expropriation by law to public input, scrutiny and debate?

If the budget process ,is open to public input and takes 3 months, how can a expropriation budget by-law –that accounts for !0% of the annual operating budget be approved in a one session council meeting with little or no public input, scrutiny or debate ?


Contact your public representatives to get answers - it’s your money, use it wisely

Public Brantford Representatives

Mayor Mike Hancock
519-759-4150
mhancock@brantford.ca

WARD 1 Councillors

Jennifer Kinneman
519-717-3872
jkinneman@brantford.ca

Mark Littell
519-717-0403
mlittell@brantford.ca

WARD 2 Councillors

John Sless
519-717-0673
jsless@brantford.ca

Vince Bucci
519-717-0518
vbucci@brantford.ca

WARD 3 Councillors

Greg Martin
519-754-7269
gmartin@brantford.ca

Dan McCreary
519-761-2439
dmccreary@brantford.ca

WARD 4 Councillors

Richard Carpenter
519-770-6027
rcarpenter@brantford.ca

James Calnan
519-732-6476
jcalnan@brantford.ca

WARD 5 Councillors

Marguerite Ceschi-Smith
519-758-5093
mceschi-smith@brantford.ca

John Bradford
519-755-8255
jbradford@brantford.ca


Provincial representative Dave Levac dlevac.mpp@liberal.ola.org

Federal representative Phil Coleman McColeman.P@parl.gc.ca