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I was really disappointed. I thought that the whole point was to give everyone until December to come up with this grand business plan that we could partnership with, but instead we get this \u2018still want it for a buck or else&#8217; and that bothers me,&#8221; said councillor Bob Stone. At the same time, he said there is great economic opportunity at the Culture Station but said he\u2019d like to see a business plan.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Nancy Alcock said that while she too supports the initiative at the CN Rail Station, she has felt a general mistrust towards council on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You bully people that support you, &#8221; she told some of those present. Alcock said she is hoping the municipality will form a partnership with the Culture Station, but it needs to be done right.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is council\u2019s lack of funds to subsidize the rental, repairs required for the site, and the fact that there is another tenant paying full rent on the premises. But Culture Station members and supporters argue that the building is designated as a heritage site, it needs to be maintained, and they are willing to do take on the lion\u2019s share along with offering cultural programming.<\/p>\n<p>In their most recent letter presenting their arguments to council, they also discuss their not-for-profit nature and their programming, already  planned well into 2016.<\/p>\n<p>There was general support for the initiative around the council table, but still councillors were not willing to jump in with both feet without a proper plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is complex, we want to make it work but I\u2019m finding out very quickly that it\u2019s not solvable overnight,\u201d said Mayor Scott Aitchison. \u201cIt\u2019s not just your issues. This corporation is dealing with a breadth of issues across all kinds of physical assets and all kinds of transportation assets and the realities of our fiscal situation, which isn\u2019t quite as rosy as we thought it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the end, council voted to extend the lease and revisit voting on the issue in June 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> <broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt was a long way to come for so little.\u201d That comment could be heard from the disappointed crowd gathered at Huntsville council on Monday, hoping to see some security [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26,222,221],"class_list":["post-4604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-breaking","tag-dr-rogers-prize-2015","tag-heather-boon"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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