Thoughts on the old library
It looks we now own it (ok, technically, we're real close now but not quite).
Idea! Move the SAU to the Old Library!
Reaction! No!
Reason - back to my post here - "it's the
timingeconomy, stupid".
Alternative: back to the Elementary School
Reaction! Yay!
Reason:
Dr. DiMinico himself put it well - "...although GES would potentially be more cost-effective...$13,000 just operationally".
It surely would be - less cost to do the renovate the Elementary School than to renovate the Library. Less travel in between buildings, and easier access to the students and the staff. Not to mention, that much of the overhead cost of the SAU would be "covered" by the normal running of the building.
As opposed to the Old Library? The Town, sir, given the economic times, could leave the building vacant for now - at a lesser cost.
I did chuckle at Scott Isabelle's comment, also in the Steamer concerning the old library: "it's right across from downtown Gilford..." heh!
Look, from my perspective, the only reason why it failed before is that the Teachers' Union decided they didn't want their bosses in the same building.
Also from my perspective - too bad. OR, if the teachers really want them at the Old Library, do a whole lot of bake sales to raise the operational budget for it - I will fight it on the BudCom.
Yeah, I'm blunt - but it matters not to me which governmental entity has to pay for it; the Town can squabble with the SAU and visa-versa all they want - what ever is decided, EITHER comes out of the taxpayer wallet - and I will choose the lesser cost (and during the temp move, it proved that the Elementary School can work).
Let the phrase "you're divisive and mean" ring again - it won't mean much. Given that the White House have called TEA Party folks like me right-wing extremists, part of a mob, and racist for being against Obama's policies; the NH Dem Chair calling me as well as thousands of other NH TEA Party participants an unhinged mob, and "progressive" anchors / pundits that are on NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC and CNBC have used a sexual innuendo to do the same thing.
Heck, that sexual slur has also been used multiple times by Carol Shea-Porter even AFTER she was told what it really meant - such Representation! Good way to win my vote in 2010, there CSP.
So, I'll be grateful for the much less pejorative adjective "divisive" hurled my way for a change.




