Late news re the $10 million Police Station

Far be it from us here at Side to gloat; it’s so unseemly in polite circles.

So what; sometimes you’ve got to do it just for the sheer fun of it.

Honest to Pete, we didn’t look at tonight’s Ostrich until well after we had posted the lengthy essay asserting that a $10 million tab for the new Police Station was entirely possible, and actually quite likely.

We sat down and took a few minutes to see what version of news they were offering today, and lo and behold on Page 2 was an article on the old Times Record building on Industry Road.

The bottom line is this:

Brunswick officials will now weigh the possibility of giving the former Times Record building to the local school department for use as a bus garage.

That’s right, the operative concept is give.  The expectation is that the school department would demolish a good portion of the facility.

This exceeds even our low expectations for the town’s disposition of the facility.  From the sound of things, we’ll receive nothing in return for our $2 million investment, except a sense of gratification.

Which in these circumstances is the equivalent of wetting one’s pants in a dark suit – it gives you a warm feeling, but nobody notices.

Taxpayers should be pleased though, since the demolition, even if not complete, will eliminate much of the visual evidence of just how improvident our leaders can be on our behalf.

We’re feeling better already about the possibility.

Think about it; the Ostrich, which walked away from the building with $1.3 of our taxpayer money in their hands, now stiffs the town on their property tax bill.  Surely there must be some accommodation that can be reached to set things right.  Like evicting them from their new building and sending them back to the old one.

Don’t you just love the way government does business?  Maybe the town could teach the MRRA a thing or two on prudent stewardship of public assets.

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