Editor:
Everyone is concerned about rising taxes and I count myself as one of those people. Recent talk of a new operations building at a cost of $3.8 million gets everyone’s attention. A quick drive up to the current operations yard should completely erase the fear of money being foolishly spent. This expenditure is necessary, well justified and long overdue.
The two tents that currently serve as workshops look like temporary structures that you would find at a bush mill or a pipeline project. Most people would not want to work under such conditions and definitely would not want their children to do so either. Yet we have forced our district employees to do so for eight years. If you took your personal vehicle to a dealership to be repaired, you would be alarmed to see a mechanic get in your car and drive it behind the dealership and into a tent to have the work done.
The proposed building is nothing extravagant and does not contain a pilot’s lounge or sauna. It is what is required to efficiently work on equipment and do it safely, with the emphasis on safely. So for the cost of less than two beers and two hamburgers, once a year, we can have a proper long duration asset that will serve our needs well into the future, and something to be proud of. Then we would be like other small towns our size.
Geoff Bedford, Sechelt
