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The response to the idea of the old buildings being turned into professional buildings is why cant we just renovate them and keep them. I see their complaint but again I am a firm believer in Appy/Pound being a dead town. I'm not sure what most people there are afraid of admitting but there is to much pride at stake for them to say your right, our town is dead. The only thing keeping Pound/Appy poppin is the schools... which is extremely sad.
And that whole argument is a weak one though. We're possibly talking about private companies coming in and doing this, they have plush funds if it came down to it, the school budget doesn't have that. And we also can't renovate 10 years from now either and possibly end up in a drawn out struggle to get this.
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Originally Posted by BAMA MAN
Most companies wouldn't do the total renovation with their own funds. The county would have to offer some incentives for them to renovate. That is a given fact. Every business that hase move in to this area has had some type of monetary incentive to move in. Sykes and Crutchfield are prime examples. The building were not built with their funds 100%. Walmart got incentinves when they built. Even Food City has gotten incentives to build where they built. The power plant, our savior(LOL), even got huge incentives to build where they built.(I still have my doubts about them "powering up")
The point I am trying to make is this. What incentives is Wise county willing to give these businesses to move here and at what cost? Our current make up of the board of stupidvisors is not capable of making a sound judgement on what to do with these buildings. These school properties will revert to county ownership after consolidation.
Finally, I have always felt consolidation should happen. It would be a huge positve for our county. The age and condition of the buildings should only be considered when making the decision as to where and whom to consolidate. Maybe some of them could be renovated (by this, I mean extensive) at a much lower price than building a new school. If this is not feasible, then build a new building. But choose your location wisely. 2-1 is just not a viable alternative for this county and its geological layout.
Would be far easier to renovate them when you have more than 2 months to do it in (Summer if the schools are open) all the 50's era schools still have asbestos in the tiles and wall which (supposedly) is not a problem so long as no construction stirs it up......I know I would not want my kid exposed to that kind of stuff but that is just meQuote:
Originally Posted by basketballguy
Honistly I think if he were intimadated he would not have goten up to speak that being said only a fool would willingly sit with the lynch mob that makes up the majorty of the anti-consoladation crowd at most of these meetings.........IMHO R13 is probably irrelevent as the sides no longer seem to be lisning to each other or anyone else however you have to admit that his argument what MUCH better than the guys who claimed that Math hurt his head and did not understand financing and %s but did know that a good Appy schooling was all anyone really needed (this from the same group of folks that sugested that they elemanate the school Libery and that since everyone is not going to collage there is no reason to give the kids an opertunity at higher level classes)Quote:
Originally Posted by BAMA MAN
As for the Nov election shaking this up I doubt it will ... the anti-group would vote for Hitler if he promised to keep there schools open and the pro group wants new schools and that is not going to change reguardless of who gets voted in or out.......What will happen is barring enacting the Basham plan you will see programs at the schools cut due to lack of funds
We can't get anything other than convicts and call centers. Folks complain about the wiring and phones in the schools and then talk about a business moving into the same buildings? It is too bad that we will support folks that won't work, pay for usless wars( seen the one about the guy that wanted out of Iraq, so he admitted lying about the bio weapons ?) and not fund a school for each town. The schools will stay empty , just figure out what we can pay for. Oh, and the dual enrollment - don't use the colleges, people can't get their kids there. Wonder if they think the county should run buses for college?
Crutchfield has never built a facility in Wise County. Previously existing structures have been used.
The lady that wanted to cut the lib has a girl in UT finishing up- the school system hasn't spent any money on the lib in....well since the 70s. You guys ***** about internet and still want to fund written text? The half-assed newspaper coverage wanted a story, they were trying to suggest ideas that would save the county MILLIONS, cause the plans to fix the schools ALL included a "control room" to watch the people come in the schools. Half of the money would have been spent on crap for social services and space for things besides classes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Counts
How many new bizs have moved into the county in the last 20 years, and which old school is C-field in?Quote:
Originally Posted by 1inStripes