{"id":2943,"date":"2008-04-01T12:17:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T17:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/04\/01\/two-pools-and-a-council-meeting\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:15:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:15:56","slug":"two-pools-and-a-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/04\/01\/two-pools-and-a-council-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Two Pools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/59\/226773395_efc6a4ce8e.jpg?v=0\" height=\"333\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 333px\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the story of two wading pools. One in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/wards2000\/ward19.htm\">Ward 19<\/a> and the other in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/wards2000\/ward25.htm\">Ward 25<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the City&#8217;s budget process, both pools were slated to close. The councillor in Ward 19, Joe Pantalone, noticed this and took action to save his pool before the budget came to Council for approval. But the councillor in Ward 25, Cliff Jenkins, only raised the issue about his pool for the first time at Council.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/councillors\/pantalone1.htm\">Deputy Mayor Pantalone<\/a> didn&#8217;t need to move any motions on the floor of Council while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/councillors\/jenkins1.htm\">Councillor Jenkins<\/a> was up on his feet dancing around the fact that he was trying to cut the City&#8217;s funding to Nuit Blanche to off-set the cost of the pool in a ritzy part of his ward. Chastised first by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/councillors\/rae1.htm\">Councillor Kyle Rae<\/a> for daring to question the funding to Nuit Blanche, Councillor Jenkins was then ridiculed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/councillors\/augimeri1.htm\">Councillor Maria Augimeri<\/a>, who represents the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/wards2000\/ward9.htm\">Jane and Sheppard<\/a> community, for asking Council to save a pool at \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Millionaire Street and Billionaire Boulevard.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Jenkins&#8217;s motion lost and now one of his neighbourhoods is less a wading pool.<\/p>\n<p>This is a classic example of the right way and the wrong way to get things done at City Hall. Chances are, if Councillor Jenkins had worked with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/councillors\/carroll1.htm\">Budget Chief Shelley Carroll <\/a>before Budget Committee had signed off, he could have found a bit of money somewhere to save the pool in Ward 25 or at least cushion the blow to the community. Instead, Councillor Jenkins tried to play Superman at the last minute and it was just too late\u00a0for anyone to help him.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/seandreilinger\/\"><em>Sean Dreilinger<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the story of two wading pools. One in Ward 19 and the other in Ward 25. At the beginning of the City&#8217;s budget process, both pools were slated to close. 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