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Originally Posted by Bunk
If the City owns it, fine, pay a reasonable rent to cover operating costs in and associated with the facility. The streets don't clean themselves, the cops aren't self-funded, Calgary Transit isn't free to operate. You get the idea. I think the City said it could accept either scenario. The Flames characterized this as a loan repayment of capital contributions, which was rather spurious.
That said, there's a space for both sides to make some concessions to make a deal work, I think.
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I thought it was the city that characterized its contribution as a loan to be paid back through property taxes, in order to make the city's part more palatable to voters.