To the editor,
Re: As Nanaimo grows, so should works yard, Letters, Feb. 21.
Sorry to the letter writer, but all citizens support upgrading Nanaimo’s public works yard. It’s the AAP that was fundamentally flawed, and how it was utilized by city hall and council.
Nanaimo city hall guided council on their plan with how to initiate this project with hopes of minimal pushback from electors. And they got plenty of pushback instead.
City hall planned a service shop at a cost $40 million without any alternate plans when they could build something similar to start with at approximately $12-15 million. That would be a huge saving of taxpayer dollars.
Nanaimo city hall failed with the AAP twice within six months, due to administrative errors, to garner support. If such a debacle happened in the private sector, shareholders, i.e. property taxpayers would have demand terminations.
Greg McRae, Nanaimo
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