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Bob, you are spot on. I actually support the current proposal, not because it displays long-term vision, but because it makes more sense than some other alternatives in the short term. I agree that we should nevertheless develop a true long-term plan that includes a vision for what our facilities will look like decades from now. I have said before, and continue to believe, that the long-term vision should center on a single junior/senior secondary complex located on the current Vets property and connected with Mickey Stevens and the Library as part of a central municipal education and recreation complex. I think that's the best way, over the long term, to create the flexibility we will need for changing populations and uses, and to maximize the all-season and all-purpose use of municipal resources. But I am willing to be convinced that some other long-term vision makes sense -- to date, no truly long-term vision of any type has been offered, and even if we reached consensus on a plan today, it would take moee than a decade to implement any real change. In the meantime, over the past decades, Warwick has been truly eclipsed by other Rhode Island and New England cities that have built and renewed their infrastructure in the same ways that we have ignored. I say all of this as someone who went through Warwick Public Schools myself, and has two children in Warwick Public Schools now, and as someone who is concerned that our tax burden will actually continue to go up more if we don't spend money on new infrastructure, due to lower property values and fewer families in the core residential tax base. --George.

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