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Council Says Yes to Borrowing $11.3 Million

Monday, June 11, 2012 @ 8:55 PM
Prince George, B.C.- City Council for the City of Prince George  has given the green light to borrow $11,317,000 from the Municipal Finance Authority for the construction of the new RCMP Building. 
 
The amount was already authorized under a General Loan Authorization bylaw   approved in 2007. 
 
The loan term would be over 20 years, with the first payment to come in 2013 at an annual rate just shy of $890 thousand dollars.
 
This is the  necessary paperwork to  actually  secure the funding that was previously approved.  Councillor Brian Skakun opposed the move.

Comments

Maybe we should scrap the new rcmp building and spend a few millon renovating the 2 buildings we have now. the remainder of 11.3 million would go along way to fixing the roads in our city. If the rcmp feel they need a new building maybe they should come up with there own funding! Just a thought!!.

Can’t do that now, as construction is already started.

Well before my other comment was so rudely taken off this site, I mentioned that I look forward to the new RCMP building. It will add some class to 3rd and Victoria.
This is money well spent as the current RCMP building is in worse shape than Prince George roads if you can believe that.

I also might join Ms. Green and stop posting to Opinion 250 if you keep removing my valued comments.

Mr Skakun and Mr Stolz I apoligize for my comments yesterday however they were just my Opinion for 250.

There is nothing wrong with the existing city RCMP building that regular maintenance would not have prevented.
Some people want a new building, and have convinced themselves and others that the existing one is beyond repair. P.T. Barnum had a saying to describe people who believe things like that.
The same sort of NON-thinking applies to the BC Hydro building at 22nd & the bypass.
The spin doctor from Hydro stated that it was cheaper to tear down the old building and build a new one than to renovate the existing one. Yeah, right.
Why not be truthful and announce that no one “likes” the old buildings anymore, “everyone” wants a new modern building and it does not matter anyway because there is an endless supply of money for these wishes.
Just how exactly do these 30 to 40 year old concrete and steel structures wear out?
These clowns insult all of us by saying new is better.
Look what CN did with a 30 yr. old structure on River Road; completely gutted almost all of the interior, major amounts of fill and new concrete went in to create a single level warehouse, a new roof and heating systems and voila, for 20 million dollars a new facility.
metalman.

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