Better to build than repair...sometimes...
Category: Local...
Posted Wednesday, February 12, 2003 at 05:51 AM [GMT-6]

Quotes from a story in today's edition of the MRT:

"It was dated from the standpoint of the décor a little bit, but more importantly from the mechanical side -- from the heating and the air conditioning and the plumbing and the electrical and those kinds of things...So we originally set out to really upgrade."

"It actually made a lot more economical sense, believe it or not, to build a new clubhouse than it would be to spend all the money it was going to take to fix what was behind the wall..."

Boy, do those quotes ever sound familiar. Let's see...we must be talking about Midland schools, right? Well, of course not; as we all know by now, these are some of the reasons that the members of Midland Country Club have voted to build a new $8.2 million, 51,00 square feet clubhouse.

I suspect that at least a few of the MCC members breathed a sigh of relief at the passage of the recent compromise school bond, as that surely took a little air out of any movement to label the country club project as a tad hypocritical in the event the bond had failed [again]. Sure, this is an "apples and oranges" comparison...but it is really easy to jump on it anyway. I do wonder if the timing of the announcement was intentionally delayed until after the election.