In case you missed it in the The Tennessean yesterday, Mayor Barry has had the mayor's office remodeled. I know everything wears out and furniture has to be reupholstered, cleaned or replaced from time to time, and ever so often things need a new coat of paint. Now, I don't want the mayor's office to look shabby. When out of town business people or dignitaries visit our city, I don't want the mayor to feel embarrassed, but $1,300,000.00! That is lot of nice carpet, and new lamps! How many units of affordable housing could that have bought? From what I see in the pictures, I don't even like it.
Mayor Megan Barry's office gets $1.3M renovation
Furniture is contemporary. Lighting is brighter. And offices of aides now have sliding glass doors that let visitors walking through see government in action.
In a facelift billed as a shift to a "more modern, open and transparent working environment,.....(link)
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You can buy 13 modest houses for that kind of money!
ReplyDeleteThey renovated 26,889 square feet according to the article, so neither of the houses you use as comparison come close to the project size.
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