The referendum on whether to spend tens of millions of dollars on replacing our present middle school is coming up. I went to one of the public meetings last year, dubious about all the proposed features. I came away impressed with the project and the rationales for doing it and doing it now. The school board has cut several million dollars from the project and I agree that now is the time to give our middle school students a good place for learning and give us taxpayers and residents a middle school that consumes less energy (and therefore less of our school taxes). As I read somewhere, a project like this that creates a building that will last for decades will take a relatively small savings of energy costs and multiply it by each year the building is used.
Some costs of construction are lowered because of Bush's Great Recession, so now is the time to get more bang for our bucks. And we will be putting people to work, who will be paying more income and business taxes.
Andi Weiss Bartczak
Gardiner
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