At any rate, the mayor said, “there's a $250,000 need to run this gallery.”

Should the county come through, councillors wondered, what use would this $100,000 be put to.

Cleveland relayed the terms of the motion – that the county would transfer the money to Cobourg, and Cobourg council would distribute it to the AGN as needed. In fact, he thought that investing the money “could do a lot of good,” perhaps leading to some way the gallery could require less taxpayer generated funding.