{"id":20676,"date":"2018-05-16T14:53:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T18:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=20676"},"modified":"2018-05-16T14:53:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T18:53:03","slug":"councillors-need-to-take-responsibility-for-joc-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/councillors-need-to-take-responsibility-for-joc-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillors need to take responsibility for JOC budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been following with some dismay the deliberations\/post mortem of the Aurora Town Council regarding the fiasco surrounding the construction of the JOC. At least $2,000,000 over budget.
\nThe April 19 Auroran story covered what appears to have been a lengthy discussion of the recently completed audit, which was highly critical of the entire project and how it was managed.
\nThe subject was addressed again by The Auroran in the May 10 issue.
\nAs I read it, and quite frankly, it was rather obvious not long after construction began, the project was over budget almost from day one.
\nIn an effort to cover up the fact it was decided to remove +$2,000,000 in budgeted and likely quite necessary work so it could be said the project was \u201con budget.\u201d
\nNow, who was responsible for all of this?
\nTo read the two Auroran accounts of Council\u2019s discussions, the Council had absolutely nothing to do with it.
\nSpeaker after speaker spoke in a somewhat detached manner as if some mysterious outside power had mismanaged and covered up.
\nIn addition, they were all ever so grateful, even if somewhat distraught, to learn about this and would certainly seek ways to prevent such an occurrence in the future.
\nUnbelievable, not the slightest indication of taking responsibility.
\nIf the Council members are not prepared to take responsibility, then I certainly hope Aurora voters take this into account come November and think long and hard before voting for any incumbent who chooses to run again, whether for a seat on council or for Mayor.<\/p>\n

John Sullivan
\nAurora
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I\u2019ve been following with some dismay the deliberations\/post mortem of the Aurora Town Council regarding the fiasco surrounding the construction of the JOC. At least $2,000,000 over budget. The April 19 Auroran story covered what appears to have been a lengthy discussion of the recently completed audit, which was highly critical of the entire project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-5nu","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 06:04:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}