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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What kind of degenerate votes no on this?

&gt;Roof and HVAC upgrades at Dorothy Hamm, Escuela Key, Hoffman-Boston, Jamestown, Oakridge and Williamsburg.
&gt;Critical infrastructure projects such as the adaptive reuse of the Legacy Career Center Building for Montessori Public School of Arlington.
&gt;Kitchen upgrades at Arlington Science Focus, Ashlawn, Barrett and Carlin Springs.

Funny how APE is silent on this...

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Isn’t Dorothy Hamm NEW? And Montessori needs to be eliminated anyway.

How about this — they get a refund for all the money they wasted on VPL. Use that.[/quote]

Dorothy Hamm is a largely original 75 year old junior high school building. (But with a really nice, state of the art addition.)[/quote]

So an example of wasteful spending?[/quote]

More like a fiscally conservative adaptive reuse of an old, historic junior high into a middle school for the modern era. [/quote]

Maybe we didn’t need a state of the art addition, just a reasonable renovation. These buildings needs to be functional, not beautiful.[/quote]

[u]Civic buildings should be beautiful, within reason[/u]. While we don’t build the grand porticoed schools of the 1920s, we also no longer build the cheap, windowless concrete block boxes of the 1970s. The goal is to create at minimum, comfortable and inspiring places for learning.

The DHMS addition is “state-of-the-art” by virtue of its art, maker, and engineering / design spaces; a library with flexible seating arrangements and natural lighting; classrooms with large windows and modern shading systems; low albedo roofing for lower energy costs; storm water management upgrades. Etc. It’s built to last 50 to a hundred years, and it was completed for a reasonable price. [/quote]

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