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Everyone keeps bringing up the process for building the new school. I
understand that but you really need to understand the reasons why it
happened. Frugal Lincoln folk wanted to fix the old buildings rather
than incur the expense of building new buildings. But they did not
understand that if you update heating or electricity, you have to bring
it up to code. Nobody does cost benefit analysis for code. It is simply
mandated . I asked some electricians at my house once about code. They
said that the electricity companies mandated the code at the state level
with the full approval of the state and that one time new code was
mandated when the new equipment was not even ready yet! So complying
with code put the cost up to close of what building a new building would
cost. At that point the town agreed to go ahead and build the new
school. But I believe that those concerned with cost gave up at that
point. Those that continued wanted "green" at all cost. So we have a
$105 million building that is very green and very expensive. Will it pay
off in the long run? Who knows. I also would like to ask whether the new
building was built, as hospitals are, so that up grading to code can be
done easily. My guess is it is not. I think we will be paying for the
new school for 30 years. By that time, will we need to build another
school just to bring it up to code?
