[Vision2020] Buildings old and new

[Pat Kraut]

"If Ms. Richardson-Crouch has a large corporation willing to invest in our area it would be very easy for all of us to get together and come up with the dollars to build a new high school because then the tax base WILL GO UP to cover the added expense."
And in the mean time we have thrown more money into another old building that won't ever really meet the need!! I am for a new building that will have many more possibilities.
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  From: Shelly 
  To: predator75 at moscow.com 
  Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 2:08 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] if it keeps on rainin', the levy's gonna break




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        From: Dan Carscallen
        Date: 04/08/05 09:21:23
        To: vision2020 at moscow.com
        Subject: [Vision2020] if it keeps on rainin', the levy's gonna break

        So, Donovan (and others) harangues against a new high school because the
        old one can be renovated to accommodate the student population.  Maybe
        the building can, but the area around it does not have the room to
        accommodate the vehicles used by every other student and all the staff.
        Okay, so you'll say "everyone should ride the bus".  Hogwash.  Remember
        when you got your drivers license?  What was the first thing you wanted
        to do was DRIVE, everywhere!  And so do these kids now.  Not only that,
        there is no place for activities related to P.E. class.  Okay, so they
        get bussed out to Mountain View park, but that cuts out the time for the
        teachers to actually teach, let alone do whatever activity is scheduled.
        Now people question the value of Physical Education.  Okay, let's just
        get rid of it and raise a bunch of slugs who we won't have to support
        later on in life because none of them will live past 50 due to their
        sedentary lifestyle that began when they were in high school.  That am
        reel smart!
        This will fix our social security problem. 

        Now others would complain that the new high school would promote sprawl.
        Maybe, maybe not.  Others will bemoan the loss of beautiful farmland.
        Still others will complain of the large parking lot that will probably
        be included in the new construction. .....in the flood plain? 

        I agree to a certain extent with Phil Roderick that we *are* overtaxed
        to a certain extent.  I also believe that a lot of it comes from the
        anti-development crowd being against some big employers, thereby causing
        them to locate elsewhere (SEL, anyone?).  I hope Mrs. Richardson-Crouch
        has a little more success in attracting some more employers to increase
        the tax base.  With the layoffs, we can't count on the U of I as an
        employer forever, and we for dang sure can't count on them for taxes.  I
        also hope "Team Huskey/Lund" will look at more than just Christ Church
        for getting stuff that belongs on the tax rolls back into the pool.
        Just to inform you, the process of moving a large company into our area can be done. But it will never be done with our current tax base. Also, large companies will make a commitment to a certain area or zone, acquire the land and it then takes them a few years to be completely up to speed. So, if you think you need a beautiful high school to attract a large corporation at this time, you are mistaken. The large corporation looks at the city spending, the county spending, school district spending to see if the people running the area are prudent. If not, they are not going to locate here. They don't want to be over burden.

        If Ms. Richardson-Crouch has a large corporation willing to invest in our area it would be very easy for all of us to get together and come up with the dollars to build a new high school because then the tax base WILL GO UP to cover the added expense.

        Phil Roderick



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