West Tisbury will be spending more than $4,000,000 on renovating its Town Hall. Note that the town only has 2612 year-round residents; $4,000,000 is a lot of money for a small town. The building needs this massive renovation because very little money was spent on routine maintenance.
This same refusal to maintain our public assets is the subject of an op-ed in today's NY Times. The op-ed is about our infrastructure, particularly our bridges. The author was formerly chief engineer for the city's Department of Transportation. He argues that many states and cities let their bridges deteriorate to such a degree that the federal government - which is considered free money by the state officials - will step in. The basic argument of the piece is the old cliche that still rings true - an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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but if you do preventative maintenance on government infastructure and it ends up lastly 50 years how can you bilk the citizens for pet social programs?
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