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Cross-posted from Eye Daily. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Yesterday, the executive committee approved signing the 20-year, multi-million dollar street furniture contract with Astral Outdoor Media. For more on yesterday’s meeting, check out your favourite local<\/a> paper <\/a>or website.
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In the meantime, here’s a little list I put together based on numbers reported in these articles plus a couple<\/a> others:<\/a><\/p>\n

STREET FURNITURE BY THE NUMBERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Number of years the contract will last: 20<\/strong>
\nValue of the new street furniture: $202, 000,000<\/strong>
\nCost Astral will pay to maintain it: $294,000,000<\/strong>
\nCost of the street furniture if the City of Toronto paid for the infrastructure itself: Unknown<\/strong>
\nTotal amount of ad revenue Astral is expected hand over to the city over the next 20 years: $429,000,000<\/strong>
\nTotal benefits to the city: $900,000,000<\/strong>
\nPercentage of ads that will disappear from city streets: 14%<\/strong>
\nThe increase in square footage of advertising space that will appear on city streets: 11%<\/strong>
\nNumber of thumbs up Mayor David Miller gave the deal: 2<\/strong>
\nDate city council is scheduled to debate the contract: May 23<\/strong>
\nNumber of complaints of illegal billboards and signs that city staff are investigating: 175<\/strong>
\nNumber of those billboards that belong to Astral: 23<\/strong>
\nNumber of illegal billboards posted on illegalsigns.ca: over 350<\/strong>
\nNumber of access requests Rami Tabello has submitted to the city: 625<\/strong>
\nNumber of requests that have been completed: 338<\/strong>
\nAmount of money the city was supposed to receive per year from Eucan, the company that owned and operated Toronto’s recycling bins after taking them over from OMG Media in 2005: $2,000,000<\/strong>
\nAmount of money the city actually received per year: $500,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

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