{"id":15401,"date":"2020-07-02T05:27:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T08:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=15401"},"modified":"2020-07-02T05:27:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T08:27:36","slug":"streatch-addresses-online-concern-over-financial-support-for-lhs-mrhs-graduations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=15401","title":{"rendered":"Streatch addresses online concern over financial support for LHS, MRHS graduations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FALL RIVER:<\/strong> After some online concerns were posted about Councillor Steve Streatch\u2019s use of money from his district account, he reached out to The Laker News to set the record straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue comes from word that Streatch paid almost $8,500 for all the caps and gowns for students from LHS who were graduating after COVID19 delays would have resulted in none of the grads getting them for graduation. Local realtor Jeremy Cowan also pitched in on this support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Streatch also paid for the banner as you enter Middle Musquodoboit by the square, and the individual signs with each grads face and name. Streatch partnered with Atlantic Gold for that purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it was his purchase of the caps and gowns for Lockview that seemingly has received the most scrutiny online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was contacted by the parent group and the SAC indicating the caps and gowns for LHS grads had not been ordered,\u201d said Streatch. \u201cThey were told it was too late and the students would have to go without.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI felt as councillor that was not only wrong, but also as a father who has had five children that went through the graduation process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Streatch said he knew he wanted to help in whatever way he could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI offered assistance and was pleased that I was able to do so,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Questions arose from where the money he used came from. Streatch explained that, noting he had requests from MRHS as well for funding support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery member of HRM council has discretionary funds, and I\u2019m no different,\u201d said Streatch. \u201cI was fortunate enough to have funds leftover from 2019-2020 budget. They both asked for different things, and at my discretion and within the rules I responded and contributed through my councillors funds to buy caps and gowns for LHS. We also bought a giant banner and pole-mounted signage for MRHS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI believe, quite frankly, that this was returning some of the taxpayer\u2019s money from those communities. This was not money that belonged to somebody else. This is money what was paid by their parents, the residents of my district.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FALL RIVER: After some online concerns were posted about Councillor Steve Streatch\u2019s use of money from his district account, he reached out to The Laker News to set the record straight. The issue comes from word that Streatch paid almost $8,500 for all the caps and gowns for students from LHS who were graduating after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}