SOUND OFF: The AAP is fine by me
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DEAR MR. DAVIES,
Thank you for your letter regarding the AAP and the costs of borrowing funds and building Kamloops.
While I share your concern with the rising cost of everything, it’s also painfully obvious that a city the size of Kamloops needs major infrastructure pieces like a centre for the performing arts, ice sheets, fitness centres and other civic venues. These pieces help make a city feel like a home and also make it a desirable place to live, do business and visit. It’s how we became the Tournament Capital – and it’s how we continue to be the Tournament Capital. And there are a lot of folks who depend on those dollars to earn a living in our city.
The other thing that is obvious and demonstrable is that our failure as a city to build a Performing Arts Centre actually cost us. Had we voted to move the project forward nearly a decade ago, it would already be built, and we would be earning revenue from it right now. Instead, we voted not to build it, and now we are looking at a significant increase in the cost to do so. In other words, not building it the first time cost us. We don’t need to make that mistake again.
