Keep your ears to the ground on the two proposed Egremont edifices: The library committee continues on their merry way planning Egremont's taj mahal; and the selectboard seems increasingly hell bent on a new police building. Do you think either of these projects will be analyzed and/or presented in an objective fashion? Yeah, right. Why not have the analyses and presentations done by disinterested Egremonters?
This reminds me of the vote at the May town meeting on employee salaries. You may remember that the selectboard recommended raises but the finance committee was opposed. The vote was pretty close, but the raises were approved. But if you didn't count the votes of the employees and their families, the result would have been the opposite. Is there a lesson in here somewhere?
11/4/09: I hear the estimates are in for new police quarters, and they're in the stratosphere. Since crime rates in nearby towns that have no police are not higher than ours, why do we need to spend so much on police?
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Richard,
Just discovered your blog. Great stuff! I'm just a second home owner, but am appalled at the expensive police station being talked about. Keep them honest.
Doug
Richard
I don't begrudge the town wanting a new police station. My problem is how they're going about trying to get it. If the town wants a new station then why don't they get local people to draw up plans and have it built by local artisans. I'm sure we have plenty of architechts that could draw up plans pro bono, or at a reduced cost. We have many local contractors that could bid on building it. We have local lumber suppliers that would benefit by supplying the materials to build. I think if we follow this strategy I think the town could build a very nice police station that would do the cheif proud. We could even add a lockup so she could really have fun. The problem is not the police station, it is the people who are studying and planing it.
KevinZurrin
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