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"Pilf 9/Porn <br /> Orange County Commissioners <br /> 20 September 1994 <br /> Good evening. I am John Reinhard, a Chapel Hill resident, <br /> taxpayer and parent of three children in the Chapel Hill- <br /> Carrboro city schools. I am here to ask you to send back for <br /> further consideration the request by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro <br /> city school board (CHCSB) for a 10.6 M$ elementary school. I <br /> oppose their request for several reasons. <br /> First, the proposal is unrealistically expensive and cheaper <br /> alternatives exist. These alternatives have never been <br /> seriously considered by the CHCSB. In short, they didn't do their <br /> homework. In contrast, Tax-Watch and Putting Children First <br /> have given serious consideration to the details. They are <br /> worthy of your attention. The most obvious is to renovate the <br /> Lincoln Center back into a school. The costs would be a small <br /> fraction of what is being requested and the more rapid removal <br /> of 400-500 students from the other elementary schools would <br /> greatly relieve the overcrowding. It would buy us some needed <br /> time in which to come up with truly credible alternatives, <br /> alternatives which are at present absent. Moreover, the facility <br /> is centrally located and, most importantly, WE OWN IT! There <br /> are no good reasons for opposing this idea. There is one.,.Atac, <br /> however. The current) bureaucrat residents would have to adjust <br /> to more modest offices than the obscene 1000 square-foot <br /> averages they now enjoy. I submit that we relocate the <br /> administrators in trailers and that we locate these trailers at <br /> the construction site of the new High School. Two purposes <br /> would be served by this. The administration could set an <br /> example by learning to make-do with less and Mr. Pedersen, <br /> being on-site, would not have any other excuses for <br /> construction which is not proceeding as scheduled. <br /> My second reason for opposing this request is that it is <br /> more than necessary for the task of education. Those who read <br /> Superintendent Pedersen's letter in last week's Chapel Hill <br /> Herald can better understand Mr. Pedersen's motivations. The <br />