Thank you, Laura -- this is spot on. Time is money, whether because of inflation or quite literally lost man hours and productivity because you've scrapped something that you didn't need to.
For all the sky-is-falling emails that I've seen about inflation, ballooning budgets, tax comparisons and so on, not a single one of them has acknowledged the fact that a 2-year delay (which is ambitious, considering the meetings, studies, votes, etc.), on even a $5 million project, taking into account even modest inflation, will mean spending that $325,000 on nothing -- and by nothing I mean inflation -- because of the delay. Delaying other projects -- including this one! -- has shown that to be the case many times over. Aren't we far better off advancing the process, and spending the money on something concrete that moves us closer to something that will be objectively good for Lincoln? Lis On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 9:30 PM Laura Crosby <lauracros...@comcast.net> wrote: > Whatever we do, wherever we build it and whatever it costs let us not lose > this opportunity to build a much needed Community Center ( or Village Hall > as some Europeans call it ). There has been a tremendous amount of thought, > time, resources and consensus through multiple committees over ten years to > develop a plan at Hartwell. If we vote no on allocating money for > architecture and engineering relook/ revamp of existing plans we will have > to eventually duplicate dollars for services we have already purchased. > My hope is that we can relook at the work that has been done and find a > way to reduce costs to a palatable level. Then let’s see what the private > fundraising group can do to help reduce taxes further on the project. > History shows that a community center can unite a community, offer > educational opportunities, provide much needed facilities, promote health > and well-being, > encourage creativity and culture, enhance the ability to share valuable > information, > support a wide variety of community projects, combat loneliness, > positively affect lives of younger people, provide volunteer activities. > Now more than ever we live in challenging times that require us to pull > together to bring as much community support as possible to all of our > Lincoln residents. > I hope you will consider voting > YES on Wednesday evening. > > Sent from my iPhone > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to Lincoln@lincolntalk.org. > Search the archives at http://lincoln.2330058.n4.nabble.com/. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/ > . > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. > >
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