Buy KISS tickets like everyone else, mayor urges council

Normally, two tickets to each Essar Centre concert are reserved for each Sault Ste. Marie City councillor to purchase, if they want them.

But for the hotly demanded KISS concert on December 15, Sault Mayor John Rowswell is asking council to do things differently.

In a memorandum distributed to fellow members of City Council, the mayor is asking that if councillors don't want the coveted tickets, that they return them to the pot of unsold reserve tickets to be sold to the general public shortly before the show.

This policy, he says, is used by some larger private-sector corporations, which reserve tickets for their employees or to give away, but return any tickets that are unused by a deadline.

"The policy we have is good for when we have a lot of tickets," said Rowswell, shown at tonight's City Council meeting with Deputy City Clerk Malcolm White.

"But we don't have a lot of KISS tickets," the mayor said.

"I've got mine and I bought them through the regular channels," he said. "That's what I'm urging the other council members to do too."

Rowswell said he plans to attend the KISS concert with wife Donna, mainly to see firsthand how the Sault does in such a high-profile event.