Saving tax dollars

One other notable point of interest from last night's Council meeting:

Energy Commission member, Bill Kunde, spoke on an agenda item. The item was the CHS window replacement project. Bill explained that the relationship among our commissions (in this case, Public Buildings and Energy) was working well.

Now this may seem of little interest to many, but for those of you who follow the local Cheshire stuff, you may recall that the topic of "working relationships" among our Boards and Commissions became a heavily discussed topic during the October '05 Council meeting.

Largely as a result of that discussion, the Council passed a little-noticed resolution in February of this year. In turn, that resolution is probably properly credited with having created the environment in which our Commissions are now working well together.

This is great news for the town. We now find ourselves working collaboratively and, more importantly, moving away from the "lowest first cost" theory of building projects to the "lowest lifecycle cost" theory. This shift in design process should save money for the town and the taxpayers.

This shift in thinking may have been years in the making, but hopefully it will be worth the time and effort of those involved in the change.

Tim White
Town Council, 4th District