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Originally Posted by OldDutch
WTF does the City of Calgary have a suite? Is it free?
And WTF has that ding dong Bell not latched onto this total waste of tax dollars if not?
Seriously, why does a lazy sack of beuracratic losers get to not only charge overtime on salary jobs, but gets to pretend they are corporate by hanging in a suite paid by us?
Like honestly, suites are for corporations that make money by entertaining clients. The city or any government deserves no perk like this. They are not a business, they have no product to sell, they make money no matter what. What purpose does this serve?
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There is so much wrong with this post. The City of Calgary is absolutely a business. If you don't run it as such, you end up like Detroit, and go bankrupt. They may not have traditional products and/or services, but they still have over one million customers and stakeholders.
If I'm not mistaken, the Dome is owned by the City of Calgary, who leases it to the Saddledome Foundation, which is managed by the Calgary Flames. They likely don't pay for the tickets, based on this arrangement.
I'm going to guess they use it to bring key figures to the city, to woo potential high ranking employees to come work for the municipal government, entertain corporate executives that they hope to bring their corporate head office to Calgary, etc.