Our governor asked state agencies to submit proposed budgets depending on anywhere from 10-40% reduction in funds for the next biennium. As previously discussed, this is how I got onto the list of putative layoffs, as it’s impossible to cut that much without cutting personnel. For the current biennium, CSN already closed some of the satellite centers and reduced staff, introducing a hiring freeze and cutting off capital expenditures in order to comply. Yet somehow Reid thinks we need/want 2000 acres of land for a new extension near the Air Force Base.
Why would we want land for a new facility when we cannot afford to operate and staff and supply the ones we already own? Reid dressed it up as a public collaboration with the military (which has a large solar farm nearby), but the military’s official position was “non-opposition”. Just another Reid pet project of dubious value to the state and its residents when the university system it will supposedly foster lacks sufficient money for continuity of operations, let alone construction of a satellite campus.
Harry Reid prefers to focus on things in which he has no business and ignore the things he should be doing. As a result, he’s got plenty of nothing to show for it. Does anyone really know what exactly this man has done for
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The only redeeming thing I can think of is that this kind of construction will need workers to build it. This means jobs, at least temporarily. I know it's a weak explanation, as upkeep for the finished facility and the current lack of funds across the nation glares down on this.
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