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Must studies always agree with officials?

Letter To The Editor:

Professional planning logic dictates that, if a person’s daily job requirements are writing down the number 25, and then the job requirements change for that same person to now write down the number 50, he or she will need additional working space because the work has doubled.

Also, he or she will need an assistant for the same reason and the salary must be increased using the rationale that not only does the job require maintaining the increased work load, but also the supervision of the added assistant.

This same line of planning continues to the current Davison City Hall, which was built more than 40 years ago in the day of pen and pencil, typewriters, secretaries, clerks and many filing cabinets.

Then came the computer, undeniably one of the finest and most outstanding inventions of the 20th century.

Expensive, but with the promise of speed of operation, efficiency, decreased labor requirements and the elimination of the filing cabinet storage area that was so cumbersome and consumed so much floor space.

The speed of operation and efficiency was achieved, the need for increased labor was stabilized and the cumbersome filing system has long since disappeared, but now the building is determined to be too small.

There has to be a reason that is not obvious to me, therefore I am unable to rationalize the expensive study done to destroy rather than maintain the existing city hall and libraries owned and paid for by the taxpayers of the city of Davison.

Further, I have yet to read a study that the findings didn’t agree with and mirror the idea and conclusions of the person or group that was paying for the study.

Phillip G. Schneider
Richfield Township

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