<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"
bottomMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My children attended Troy Idaho schools in the late
70's to early 80's when they had tried to 'remodel' the school. One of the boys
attened a 'gifted and talented class' in the furnace room! But, there were those
who insisted that the building was 'good enough' then. The building is old in so
many ways that it isn't safe! We need a new school! Our taxes, rents all will go
up no matter what we do. My hope is to pay for something that I really want and
not another 1912 building so I will be voting for the new school. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PK</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=DonaldH675@aol.com
href="mailto:DonaldH675@aol.com">DonaldH675@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=donovanarnold@hotmail.com
href="mailto:donovanarnold@hotmail.com">donovanarnold@hotmail.com</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 18, 2005 7:49
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Bond Levy for
New University Of Idaho</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Georgia color=#000000 size=3>
<DIV>Dear Donovan'</DIV>
<DIV>I worked at facilities as the university engineer responsible
for reviewing new building plans for
mechanical/electrical installation and to provide input on the same
subjects as well as utility upgrades (electrical, water, sewer, power plant,
etc.) for several years (20) and if you would like to check the records
you will find that virtually everyone of your reasons for the supposed "new
University of Idaho" are true. Why do you think we tore down so many old
buildings and opted to build new rather than remodel? And just for
starters I seriously doubt that you could even fix all of the
deficiencies of the present buildings for the amount you have proposed let
alone build a new campus. When I retired about six years ago the documented
deferred maintenance list exceeded 300,000,000 dollars. </DIV>
<DIV>As a facilities person I would like to ask you a question? Do you repair
your cars over and over and over until they are absolutely so out of date that
they are no longer functional or do you buy a newer car when the old one no
longer meets your needs? Buildings follow the same functional obsolescence
pattern and need to be replaced when they no longer meet the needs of the
present.</DIV>
<DIV>My wife attended Moscow High School in the late 50's/early 60's and it
was inadequate then so they remodeled. It remained inadequate.</DIV>
<DIV>My children attended Moscow High School in the 80's and 90's and it was
inadequate then so they remodeled. It was still inadequate.</DIV>
<DIV>My grandchildren are attending now and it is still inadequate and people
still think they can fix it by remodeling. In my mind taking the same action
over and over and expecting different results are a good definition of
delusion if not outright mental illness or maybe just plain ignorance.</DIV>
<DIV>I also have some problems with the current bond plan but am willing to
continue the mental illness with Russell and West Park (why are we remodeling
two ugly, functionally obsolescent buildings when for roughly the same money
we could get a new elementary school) if we get one new facility. In my
opinion the only justification for remodeling is a historic example of a
particular style of architecture or an old building that is so well built that
the remodel can bring it to modern standards of functionality.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Don Huskey</DIV>
<DIV>Captain, USMC (Ret)</DIV>
<DIV>BSEE, MPA, MBA</DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Verdana size=2 PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF">"One
cannot level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are just
too many of them. But you can do something, and the difference between doing
something and doing nothing is everything." Daniel Berrigan<BR></FONT><FONT
lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 PTSIZE="10"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR></FONT></DIV></FONT>
<P>
<HR>
<P></P>_____________________________________________________<BR> List
services made available by First Step Internet, <BR> serving the
communities of the Palouse since 1994.
<BR>
http://www.fsr.net
<BR>
mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>