Dale Goldhawk Live Tonight: One of the remaining TCHC board members

I know one of the board members — Dan King — and he’s on Dale Goldhawk Live tonight at 9 pm to set the record straight. He has refused to resign.

Here’s what he’s sent around:

ON TV Tonight!
Program: Dale Goldhawk Live
Time: 9pm
Date: Thursday March 3rd, 2011
Channel: 63 in Scarborough
      10 in the rest of Toronto
Dial in to our talk Show!
Dial in #: 416-446-7090 @9pm.- state your opinion!
Topic: “Should we Privatize Public Housing!”

Today, March 3rd 2011 was a dark day for public housing in Toronto.
Today, all of the citizen board members, seven in all, resigned.
This was a week of onslaught in the press about 1% of our spending that we admitted was out of control. We know we have problems in Public Housing.
Additionally, in order to ensure that we got government grants with tight time application deadlines, our staff circumvented the purchasing regulations to make sure TCHC did not lose valuable federal and provincial infrastructure funding.

It is alleged that up to $10 million might have been saved if staff had followed procedures. Up to $300 million might have been lost had staff not met the deadlines.

The mayor is now calling for privatization of public housing.
My first question is, will he also privatize our …
* Tenant Participation Program
* Tenant Capital budget allocation program
* Social Investment Fund (SIF) grants
* Eviction Prevention Program
* Lesage report: 81 recommendations

Additionally, we are considering tenant social support recommendations stemming out of a demand for change to the Social Housing Reform Act, TCHC’s mandate.

I am open to this discussion as long as it includes the valuable programs above, programs that we already have. I wonder if the mayor is?
He may make a guest appearance on our show, tonight at 9pm.
Come and see your tenant board members, Dan King and Catherine Wilkinson, on TV Tonight.
We have not resigned.
…Dan King, TCHC Tenant Board Member

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