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<DIV><FONT size=4>Melynda,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Thank you for your insightful comments. It's hard to
understand why intelligent people do not understand the connection between
facility design and grade configuration. Or is this just another excuse to
pretend to be pro-education but is really pro-ignorance.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Perhaps the following alternative was discussed and I
missed it: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>There is a crying need for expansion of the county
courthouse. Why wasn't a proposal floated to make part of the old high
school part of the courthouse expansion and thus saving a lot of money
in the long run. Maybe the alleged need for new facilities by the MPD
could fit in here also. Perhaps the LCSO and the MPD could share a joint
facility in the newer part of the old HS thus opening space at the CH
and giving the city government more room at the current MPD
building; such a configuration might also lead to some further
law enforcement cooperation and efficiency.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>The need for the courthouse expansion is another reason for
moving the high school location.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Phil advocates using eminent domain to condemn the property
across from the post office to keep the HS in its present location.
Phil: Do you have any idea what the market value of the apartments and
business offices across from the PO is?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Perhaps, Phil, instead wanting everyone to do your leg work,
you could take a few minutes, go down to the CH and discover and communicate to
V 2020 this information. Also ask a professional appraiser how much below
real market value these properties are presently assessed at and report
that also.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><BR>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<BR><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=melyndahuskey@earthlink.net
href="mailto:melyndahuskey@earthlink.net">Melynda Huskey</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=citizenament@moscow.com
href="mailto:citizenament@moscow.com">aaron ament</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 28, 2005 2:14
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] something for
the table</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=geneva,arial,sans-serif size=2>Citizen Ament (hey, Aaron!)
writes:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=geneva,arial,sans-serif size=2> </DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=geneva,arial,sans-serif size=2>"grade configuration is not a
facilities issue. keep it separate."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=geneva,arial,sans-serif size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=geneva,arial,sans-serif size=2>I'm not sure how to
keep configuration separate from facilities. We can plan
our grade configuration to fit the existing facilities, or we can plan new
facilities to fit our existing (or future) configuration, but they are pretty
closely connected. After all, who's in the building affects how it's
built and used.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>School configuration is a volatile issue--like
the bond!--and there's a lot of emotion connected to particular
models. Although it made sense to me to pair a change in
configuration with a change in the physical structures, I think it may have
been just too much change for some people.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The rest of Aaron's recommendations rest on the
possibility of passing a larger bond than the one which just went down,
and doing so after the last bond has been retired, with its concomitant drop
in taxes. It's more expensive to remodel than it is to build new, I'm
told, and the cost of getting a remodelled high school which could meet the
technological and educational needs of students would not be
insignificant. There's the problem of putting students somewhere
while the changes are made. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There would certainly be resistance--as fierce
and passionate as the resistance from neighbors of the Trail property--from
the owners of all the property which the district acquired by eminent
domain. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's a time consuming
process, and a painful one, taking people's property away from them. The
community would certainly divide over *that* decision.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm perplexed by what a next step in this
business might be. A larger bond will, of course, be completely
unacceptable to many people in the community. A couple of
small bonds? The first one might go, but I bet the second one
wouldn't. And how to decide which project to take on first? *Any*
bond will be unacceptable to a sufficient number of people to create
something of a challenge. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm afraid we are headed down the road that
Troy has walked, and we will find ourselves with a condemned
school building, no funding, and a community that's unwilling to pay
the ever-growing cost of solving the problem. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Melynda Huskey </FONT></DIV>
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