Loose as a goose.
A recent Morning Star story showed a beaming Coldstream mayor, Jim Garlick, handing a cheque to Wilf Mulder of the Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation.
It's 55 grand.
Taxpayer money.
Originally earmarked for a now-defunct "service" facility, Garlick donated it towards medical equipment versus returning it to taxpayers.
He stated the money is surplus, and that we all use the hospital.
The only holdout on council's approval was Gyula Kiss, who stated "“When you take money from the taxpayer and you get some of it back, they (taxpayer) should enjoy the benefit.”
Exactly, as it doesn't belong to Coldstream to donate.
Someone compared the donation to, for example, Superstore or Save On Foods donating to a charity after having collected the money over a course of several months at their stores.
The only difference between what Garlick and the chainstores did is that in the chainstore case, customers willingly offered the donation to support the charity. That's not the case with the Municipality of Coldstream...they taxed residents for the service. And that service is now defunct.
"The goose is too big for his britches," says Kia.
Too generous with our money.
Soon he'll have our britches too.
Considering that Vernon's Mayor and council chose to return the funds to taxpayers, this is unacceptable.
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