Letter To The Editor – Dream or Nightmare?

To the Editor:
Berlin Town Supervisor Robert Jaeger has a dream:  All of the Town’s need for office space, meeting rooms, storage and etc. – as well as a worthy site for the Highway Department – can be solved forever by purchasing the former Berlin Lumber Company’s 23 acre property, 3.4 miles south of Berlin village.
Wasn’t that property under water in a bad storm in 1950? (Just asking.)
Are there state and federal regulations that might be a “snag” to these plans? Who knows?  Is Supervisor Jaeger going to check up and report on these “pesky details” before we vote on December 14?
What are the cost projections to repair, retrofit and renovate the buildings to make them ‘compliant’ for the uses Mr. Jaeger sees for them?  Perhaps only another $100,000? (Then right from the start Berlin will go into debt.)
Are there alternatives?
Perhaps people should know that the Town already faces a possible 30+ % increase in taxes without even taking this scheme into consideration?
How about just keeping the building fund money “just sitting there” in the bank until some reasonable opportunity comes along?
Supervisor Jaeger’s dream could well become the people of Berlin’s nightmare.
Can we say “Boondoggle”?
Gale Shaw
Berlin