A Toronto charity that’s provided skates, sticks and hockey helmets to hundreds of children in need says it’s being stiffed by the city for the cost of the equipment.
Skate to Great says it was promised that a portion of its costs — at least $50,000 — would be covered by the city within two months when former city councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker contacted its volunteer chair Evan Kosiner and asked the organization to round up the equipment in March 2018.
But De Baeremaeker, city staff and the current councillor, Paul Ainslie, have a very different take on the situation.
De Baeremaeker told CBC Toronto that although $50,000 was allocated to the group back in 2018, there were no guarantees issued about when it would be handed over. That requires a second motion to council — a motion that hasn’t yet been drafted by Ainslie’s office.
Are these 2 assholes related to Trump.
Sounds a lot more plausible that he promised 50k with a proper payment date then stiffed a charity for children then whatever these guys are suggesting.
“I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t tell any charity, ‘You’re getting 50,000 bucks next month,’” De Baeremaeker said Wednesday. “Maybe he misunderstood what I said.”
Ainslie, who took over the ward from De Baeremaeker after the 2018 municipal election agrees.
“I can almost guarantee that (De Baeremaeker) didn’t tell Skate to Great to go buy all this equipment because you’re getting the money in eight weeks,” he said. All that’s in writing is the fact that that Skate to Great has been approved for funding — not when that funding would be doled out.
“Yes, we did promise them the money, but we never agreed on a timescale. In fact, I’m moving the disbursment to next decade because, well, I can. Toodles!”.
All city halls are filled with assholes it seems.