Patton 2

I don’t think you will find a greater advocate of preventative maintenance than me.  However infrastructure such a school roofs, town water mains, roads etc are necessary as you correctly point out and if not maintained they will come back and bite you in the pocketbook.  Just look at the rot in the Winthrop school due to neglect of maintenance, which we are presently fixing. However I do not put the soccer fields in the category of necessary.   Nice to have is the word that comes to mind.

I am not sure that senior housing is the way to go, it seems Penguin Hall is having a hard time selling and the Bank is not coming up with the $ because they feel there is  glut of senior housing on the market.  The only positive thing that stands out like a sore thumb is the need for revenue and the need to stop spending money unless we absolutely have to.  Maintenance is a no brainer.  Pleasure spending is not a way to go.  If we are to spend discretionary funds, than I can think of other ways to spend, like some teachers or a new science lab which would have a much better bank for the buck. 

I think somebody should donate a big tire and some rope –what hell of a swimming pool that would make ---our generation knows this. Just marveling how far we have come from the old swimming hole to a $2 million pool.