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Toronto City Hall reno blasted

After months of bewailing its financial plight, the City of Toronto proposes spending $6.2 million on City Hall renovations to create new committee rooms, build a media studio and consolidate Mayor David Miller's staff in offices overlooking Nathan Phillips Square. The previously undisclosed renovations showed up in the fine print of the city's capital budget, released Thursday.

Councillor David Shiner said the spending undercuts the city's argument that it needs more funding. "We're telling the provincial and federal government that we can't afford to maintain the infrastructure of the City of Toronto, and yet we have almost $7 million for renovations to the mayor's office, and to add a couple of committee rooms," said Shiner (Ward 24, Willowdale).

"How can we go to the province and say we need help, and how can we go to the feds and say we need help, when we're renovating our house for what seems to be unnecessary work?"

Mayor Miller was in Ottawa yesterday, talking with other mayors about getting a better deal for cities. He said the renovations were not part of Toronto's long-range budget plan "but the idea of building the committee rooms dates back for some time."

February 11, 2007 in Toronto Area Communities | Permalink

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