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A new notice posted at ARC: Attention Customers, the Parks, Recreation and Culture annual fee increase will take place September 1st 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is no wonder that with Parks, Recreation and Culture involved Plan A is such a bungled tragedy in progress for the taxpayers of Abbotsford, where the only sure results are that the taxpayers will be saddled with a ruinous burden of debt, the costs will keep rising, and should the City irresponsibly rush headlong into starting the arena construction \u2013 they will run out of funds before it is completed.<\/p>\n

But then what can you expect from a department where management does not even comprehend a concept as simple as annual \u2013 happening once a year.<\/p>\n

Or have management already forgotten the fee increases put into effect on July 1 of 2007? Is it that in their focus on squeezing every penny of cash flow possible out of taxpayer\u2019s pockets that what was imposed just two short months ago was a \u201cPlan A surcharge\u201d? Perhaps it is just that city management is so use to misleading the public they \u201ccannot help themselves prevaricating\u201d?<\/p>\n

Whatever the pretext, patrons will be forced to pay this second \u201cannual\u201d increase of the year, be left wondering when the next \u201cannual\u201d fee increase will occur or awaiting imposition of another \u201csurcharge\u201d and wistfully yearning for competent management at Parks Recreation and Culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new notice posted at ARC: Attention Customers, the Parks, Recreation and Culture annual fee increase will take place September 1st 2007. It is no wonder that with Parks, Recreation and Culture involved Plan A is such a bungled tragedy in progress for the taxpayers of Abbotsford, where the only sure results are that the taxpayers will be saddled with a ruinous burden of debt, the costs will keep rising, and should the City irresponsibly rush headlong into starting the arena construction \u2013 they will run out of funds before it is completed. But then what can you expect from a department where management does not even comprehend a concept as simple as annual \u2013 happening once a year. Or have management already forgotten the fee increases put into effect on July 1 of 2007? Is it that in their focus on squeezing every penny of cash flow possible out of taxpayer\u2019s pockets that what was imposed just two short months ago was a \u201cPlan A surcharge\u201d? Perhaps it is just that city management is so use to misleading the public they \u201ccannot help themselves prevaricating\u201d? Whatever the pretext, patrons will be forced to pay this second \u201cannual\u201d increase of the year, be left wondering when the next \u201cannual\u201d fee increase will occur or awaiting imposition of another \u201csurcharge\u201d and wistfully yearning for competent management at Parks Recreation and Culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-municipal"],"yoast_head":"\nWill someone please get them a Dictionary - James W. 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