Re: Old High School

[Briana LeClaire <mmsmom1@yahoo.com>]

Mr. Danahy's reasons are all valid, but there are other reasons which
were in an article in the paper about ten days ago.

The biggest reason the Pullman pool will be less expensive is because,
unlike the City of Moscow, the Pullman pool builders do not have to
pay the prevailing union wage.  Another reason is because the
"footprint" (amount of land, amount of excavation) will be smaller
there.

:-)  Briana


John and Laurie Danahy  wrote:
>
> (snip)
> > 
> > This is another of my favorite bits of nonsense: I have never seen
> > anything that suggests that this is accurate.  When examined in any
> > detail, the presumed-ability of private enterprise to do something
more
> > cheaply comes from the fact that it is doing less.
> > 
> > Dale Goble
> > Moscow
> > 
> How then do you explain the Moscow pool committees report that an
indoor
> year yound pool in Moscow would cost between 5 and 8 million, but
Pullman's
> pool will only cost 2.1 million?  Certainly size and features would
have
> something to do with the cost difference, but not enough to justify
that
> large of a difference.  The private sector must deal with
competitors.  The
> public sector does not, because competition is severly limited by
rules and
> regulations.  A contractor bidding on a public works project must
jump thru
> many hoops just to qualify as a bidder, but only needs to be low
bidder on
> a private project.
> 
> John
> 
> John and Laurie Danahy
> jdanahy@turbonet.com
> 
> 

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