Where Art Thou, KEDCO? MT FOD 6 & IROB Are In Your House

Once upon a time during the late autumnal days of the First Year of the Gerretsen Gambit in the Limestone City, it came to pass that the Mayor declared that the Kingdom was open for business and with that bold, photo opportunistic proclamation, he launched the Mayor’s Task Force On Development. The MT FOD will be an elite, hand picked unit comprised of four local business leaders and two Elected Representatives, one of which was a former member of the Posse of Georges and a Mayoral cohort and co-conceiver of this stratagem. The MT FOD 6 will be provided with 100,000 tax dollars to ensure the Task Force is well fed while generating digital reports printed on expensive forestry by-products that will enable and increase the Kingdom’s economic development by streamlining the Kingdom’s development process. In other words, City Hall’s Bureaucratic SNAFU and FUBAR approval process has been identified as the bottleneck in the system and the MT FOD 6 will cut the red tape and slap the Heritage Committee out of the way while opening the Kingdom’s gates to more urban sprawl and restaurants.

And while MT FOD 6 awaits approval from the Elected Representatives, the Mayor proclaimed the Kingdom needs yet another Bureaucrat and has created an Intergovernmental Relations Office to be staffed by a professional lobbyist at the cost of 100,000 tax dollars per year. The IROB (Intergovernmental Relations Office Bureaucrat) will be responsible for fishing for Federal and Provincial Government Funding because it appears KEDCO is MIA again and it might be considered a conflict-of-interest if the Mayor asks the Premier of Ontario for money while the Mayor’s father is an Ontario Cabinet Minister. It is also highly unlikely Federal Republican King Stephen will divert money from his tax trough to our Liberal Limestone Kingdom but the Mayor thinks it’s worth $100,000 a year to try.

This all happened after being told taxes will increase 3.5% to maintain the status quo inflationary cost of doing business in the Kingdom. If these issues did not concern the immediate evaporation of our tax dollars we would find this amusing. We also wonder what KEDCO will do now, other than market discounted ticket prices for Sport Tourism events at the K ROCK Centre?

This all happened after being told the Posse of Georges Elected Representative wants to evict peaceful, democratic protesters that occupy the park across from the Limestone City Palace. We need to worry about those occupying City Hall, not those occupying the city’s parks.