Public works storage barn

[waste]

We just returned from being out of town and were reading our copy of the Cranbury Press from last week. On the front page is an article about a new barn to be built in town for public works. I am shocked to see we will be spending $450,000 on this building in a time when our taxes are being increased. This is another example of waste by our town council and reminds me of the million dollar baseball field which was built and is never used.

[??]

For storing what? Any idea?

[waste]

In the article it only mentions public works will be able to immediately wash trucks in side the building almost immediately after doing services like snow plowing. How big will this building be?

[Heard]

Ten thousand square feet is what I heard

[??]

[Carman]

10,000 square feet and $450,000 to wash trucks?

[my guess]

[duh]

[FWIW]

What I heard is that storing the trucks outside in the winter has caused them to corrode and wear out faster. Being able to store them inside and wash off salt, etc. right away is expected to increase their usable life which will decrease the rate of capital spend on them. They supposedly did a full ROI (return on investment) analysis of the cost of the barn being covered in the long term savings on the rate of vehicle repair and replacement. I haven't seen it personally which is why I say supposedly.

[waste]

[waste]

[wondering]

"waste"

Do you attend township meetings, or have you expressed your concern directly to a committee member? Posting here does nothing to allay any concerns you have.

[Q&A]

Question:
What find of fool would spend money on a building to protect their vehicles and tools?

Answer:
Just about every fool in Cranbury, where almost every house has a garage.

[truck maintenance fees]

" Now this year in the Cranbury Press article from last week he says we need to spend another large sum of money to maintain our public work vehicles. This is all wasteful and the members of our town council should be ashamed of wasting this money. "

So, we spent $47K to build the truck garage in the hope of reducing future truck maintenance fees. Now, the garage has been built ($47K gone), and we are still spending large sum of money on truck maintenance fees?

[Facts]

I actually spoke with Mr. Taylor. The truck wash installed last year is simply a drain pipe with an oil and sand separator. It was legally required to wash the trucks off outside. If that was not put in then the vehicles could not be washed at all regardless of the time of year.

This new barn has a pipe connecting a drain to the system built last year so now the vehicles can be washed off as they come inside after plowing or salting the roads. There was no way to wash vehicles off indoors last year and you can't take dump trucks to a car wash. Also he stated that the cost is about 100k under the 450 stated here for the barn and build. This is covered by bonds and notes already taken out by TC's prior to any of the existing members.

[Thank you]

Thank you for clarifying the trucks could already be washed outside and Mr Taylor is spending $350,000 this year according to the number you posted so our trucks can instead be washed inside. It probably was too hard for our public works department to be washing the trucks outside so spending this money was the only option. Maybe we should also hire some extra employees to wash the trucks since it still may be to grueling for our current staff. Thank you mr Taylor for spending a total of $400,000 over the last 2 years to wash our towns trucks.