I want to call attention to this outside of the torrent of posts on the main Community Center thread.
Andy Wang said, in part (I don't think that my excerpting distorts his meaning): "Now, if you (the royal you, not you specifically, Adam) don't think that there should be a combined community center at Hartwell at all, and I know there are several of folks who don't, then you should vote NO, since I don't think the committee intends to go way back 10+ years to re-hash all those decisions." There is a crucial nuance here. Let's try to not get tangled up in misunderstandings and confusion about what each of us thinks a "combined community center" means when we vote. I support pursuing new construction to meet rec and coa needs at Hartwell with the explicit caveat that this study, if approved, produces a new option (to consider when it comes time to vote on a preferred choice) that is no frills, focused on the essentials and that takes advantage of any favorable opportunities to provide _some_ of the services at other sites in town. Even if some of the services are not at the Hartwell site, it would still be a "combined community center." >From the discussion at the Select Board meeting last night, I believe that something along the lines of what I said in the previous paragraph is what the Community Center Building Committee intends to do. I eagerly await seeing exactly what is presented tomorrow. If we incorporate the work to flesh out and cost estimate a version that has "center of gravity and new construction at Hartwell, but some things might be elsewhere" that is NOT re-hashing 10 years of work and decisions. It is finally completing important work that I wish we had done earlier in this saga. Dennis Picker
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