[Vision2020] Ten Simple Questions on the Bond

[Tom Hansen]

Mr. Arnold asks:

"1)	How come it only costs $400,000 to make the High School safe for 
alternative high school students but would cost more than $20,000,000 to 
make it safe for the regular high school students?"

Then goes on to ask:

"3)	There are only about 55 students at the current alternative high
school.  Using the old school for just 55 students seems like an
extraordinary waste of space. It would seem prudent and less costly to keep
the current location for the alternative high school and rent out the old
high school."

You seemed to have answered Question #1 with Question #3.  Simple logic
dictates that costs relating to making appropriate modifications of a high
school to suit the needs of 55 students would be far less than making those
same modifications for considerably more students.  

Also, a temporary solution for 55 students, as compared to a permanent
modification for considerably more students (as outlined in the levy),
reduces that cost extensively more.

Perhaps Mr. Arnold should have attended that logic course that he mentioned
in an earlier posting?

- Questions 4 thru 9 lack sufficient substantiation as to suggest any
meanwhile response -

However, Mr. Arnold asks:

"10)	The school district says that the school is inadequate for education
and we need a new high school. How can this be? The University of Idaho is
rated as the most wired university in the west and the most technologically 
advanced school in the northwest. The University of Idaho's oldest buildings

are running some of the most advanced technology in the northwest. If an
older building then Moscow High School can run graduate level programs and 
sophisticated technology then Moscow High School should be able to teach at 
a high school level in a building only build in 1939."

Call UI President White!

Donovan Arnold has found the solution to all of the University of Idaho's
budget problems.  We will simply terminate any (and all) financial funding
of all campus buildings constructed since 1939.  A photo of the 1939 UI
campus of which I have available on my primary website at:

http://www.tomandrodna.com/Old_UofI.jpg

Gee, Mr. Arnold.  There are a lot of departments on campus that aren't going
to like this.

Take care, Moscow.

Tom "The Skidoo Kid" (as they said in the mid 1930's) Hansen

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box.