A good neighbour? Cool Aid has proven itself to be is a self-serving, dishonest, inconsiderate, organization, whose only concern is themselves and their unjustifiably large salaries.
Cool Aid has had plenty of opportunity to address the concerns and questions the neighbourhood have had, and every single time, they either lied, or did not answer. Last January, presumably to appease the concerns of neighbours and parents, CEO Kathy Stinson said; no one would be moving into Mount Edwards until September 2017 at the earliest, at the time, that was 17 months in the future! Naturally, opposition to the move took a breather. Five weeks later, Cool Aid were moving people into Mount Edwards.
Even our most modest requests, like screening potential residents for pedophiles, overnight visitation, or criminal record checks to screen for violent criminal convicts, the removal of the barricade on Rockland to ensure more passive security, blanking out windows facing the school across the street so kids looking out the window of their classrooms could not see inside resident’s rooms where people were shooting up, all ignored. Seriously, does anyone think that any of those requests are or were unreasonable, or even expensive, to implement? They were all simply ignored by Cool Aid.
We also asked for security guard outside the building to dissuade loitering and drug dealing, they responded with a Cool Aid employee who sat on the steps and blew soap bubbles, presumably to show everyone that there was nothing to do, meanwhile, around the corner, there was prostitution, drug dealing/using, they did nothing. Cool Aid did eventually acquiesce on the security guard, probably because they wanted to reduce the risk of incidences, prior to them attempting a rezoning application, again, to protect their own interests.
If Cool Aid did care about helping vulnerable persons in our community they would have not chosen to put a low barrier housing facility 18 meters from a K8 school. A school that turns over all their income, after expenses, to the Cathedral, which in turn uses it, almost exclusively, to help vulnerable people, such as the homeless! That’s right they were/are using that money to help and provide for homeless people, not exploit them as cash cows, to enrich themselves.
The CCC school is going to disappear just like Saint Andrews did, and for the same reasons, concerns about public safety for their kids, and the deterioration of public safety and security in the neighborhood. And can you blame them? Ask yourself, if you were/are a parent, how much additional risk to the safety and security to your kids would you be willing to tolerate?
Cool Aid thought they could get away with it, and for a while in terms of the Cathedral, they did, much to the chagrin of parents to children at the school and local area residents. That only changed when the administration of the Cathedral, (your ultimate turn-the-other-cheek do gooders), finally started to understand the real consequence of having hundreds of people without any consideration for anyone else, most with mental illness, criminal records, and drug addictions, living next door. I am referring to Tent City, but remember Cool Aid’s stated intention was, and is, to move Tent City people, indoors, to Mount Edwards. So it’s the same people! Cool Aid said so themselves.
I don't think Allen know what a good neighbour is, so I’ll clarify; good neighbours don't defecate on your lawn, leave bio hazardous drug paraphilia everywhere, house residents who steal from you, openly shoot heroin or smoke crack in front of your kids, have scary and frequent public mental health episodes, and, are usually not responsible for a 24 hour a day stream of emergency response sirens.
The tragedy of all this is not just ours, the homeless also suffer as their real needs are not adequately addressed by Cool Aid. They are simply warehoused, very profitably warehoused.
CEO Kathy Stinson, who has not once given us a straight honest answer about anything to do with Mount Edwards. I mean, I kid you not, she even denied signing the document sent to the Provincial government urging them to keep Tent City, and that information was public knowledge at the time!
As a, so called nonprofit society, Cool Aid are supposed to release financial information including salaries to the public, but they bundle all salary information together so the public can't see the actual salaries people at the top, pay themselves.
So I will make a direct and honest question to Allen, how much does Kathy Stinson make in salary, bonus and benefits?
So… good neighbours, compared to what, a Hells Angels clubhouse?
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