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Originally Posted by GGG
Calgary does not need more schools. We are not at capacity. In fact we have a surplus of schools. Parents just object to bussing kids. Calgary also has plenty of Hospitals for what it needs. No one is proposing building anymore right now. Alberta's current services do not need more funding. And even if it did a one time 2-5 billion expenditure isn't going to make a dent in Alberta's budget situation. We don't need to exaggerate the risk or current state of Alberta for the Olympics to be a bad idea.
The Vanoc budget ended up being within the original estimate. And estimate at the bid stage is +/- 30% but usually only 10% contingency is applied. So the original 4.6 billion likely has a cap of about 6 billion. Scope creep though needs to be managed. The Olympics run at a 2 billion loss. So what do you get for that 2 billion. In the current bid documents- nothing that we need. Modest improvements to a bunch of existing facilities
It does not get us New Stadium, New Arena, new fieldhouse or new transit. That seems to be a failure to me.
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I’m trying to remember what you specifically believe as far as a new arena......
But I have seen many say no public funds for a new arena, because there is always something more important to spend that money on. But now for the Olympics we’re going to say that there are no public facilities or services urgently needed, so its ok to spend a bunch of money on this?
I don’t even necessarily mind the idea of the Olympics depending on the details, I just find overall a tremendous amount of hypocrisy and rationalizing by many posters on this board, as well as the mayor.