{"id":21090,"date":"2018-07-05T10:37:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T14:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=21090"},"modified":"2018-07-05T12:55:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T16:55:32","slug":"reader-questions-fiscal-sense-of-armoury-roof-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/reader-questions-fiscal-sense-of-armoury-roof-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader questions \u201cfiscal sense\u201d of Armoury roof choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, Council sure can spend our tax dollars.  Making the decision to clad the Armoury in a zinc roof at over 12 times the cost of a metal roof but only a life span 2 1\/2 times longer than the metal appears to be a rather poor monetary decision.<br \/>\nHow does that make any fiscal sense?<br \/>\nPay $30K today for a metal roof. At the rate of inflation, at the end of the metal roof\u2019s lifespan it would cost slightly over $60K to replace. So, after 80 years the cost of a metal roof would be slightly over $90K.  However, Council chose to spend $380K for a roof that would be coming to the end of its lifespan at the time the metal roof requires replacing.<br \/>\nIf a metal roof were used, after 80 years, we would still be ahead by approximately $290K.<br \/>\nAlso, how can the Town architect propose such a fiscally irresponsible solution and then Council goes along with the recommendation?!<br \/>\nThis is being very flippant and not fiscally responsible with our tax dollars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Juergen Daurer<br \/>\nAurora<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: The actual cost for the metal roof is $200,000. The $30,000 figure stems from other exterior work.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, Council sure can spend our tax dollars. Making the decision to clad the Armoury in a zinc roof at over 12 times the cost of a metal roof but only a life span 2 1\/2 times longer than the metal appears to be a rather poor monetary decision. How does that make any fiscal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}