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Before millions of taxpayer dollars are spent on building a new Trumbull Senior/Community Center, we ask the Senior/Community Center & Library Study and Building Committee (Building Committee) to first find out what Trumbull residents want and what they are willing to pay for. A project of this scale requires a comprehensive town-wide planning process to answer some basic questions. Do Trumbull seniors want the current center renovated or do they want a new center? Do Trumbull residents want a new senior-only center or a true community/senior center, and if so, with what amenities? Where would Trumbull residents want a new facility to be located?
From the beginning, this process has been flawed, yet the Town Council and Board of Finance have allocated $175,000 to the Building Committee to hire an architect to design this new facility. This money is being spent despite the fact that the need for a new senior center has not been established; initial resident surveys were ill-designed and elicited poor response rates. Currently, no financial projections have been done regarding the cost to run a new facility, membership numbers, or membership fee increases. A site has not even been selected. Nonetheless, our town government continues to push ahead, spending our tax dollars on this poorly planned process.
Please sign below demanding that the Town Council and the Building Committee put a halt to spending any more Trumbull tax dollars until sufficient community input has been gathered via a well written/comprehensive survey mailed to each household allowing for a fiscally responsible planning process to be put in place.
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Reached 500 supporters
May 26, 2016
Reached 100 supporters
May 17, 2016
143 Comments
Some of the surveys were done many, many years ago and are now meaningless under current economic conditions in Trumbull and the state. Is it affordable now, and in the future? Consider also the current rates of out-migration when people retire.
I like the fact that the town is showing initiative in developing a project for its people. however, I feel at this point is not informed enough by the entire voting population. The focus should be on community not just one portion of community.
PROCESS MATTERS! An INCLUSIVE survey, assessment of COMMUNITY needs, PUBLIC meetings and THOROUGH discussions AHEAD of final decisions will serve us all BETTER in the long run.
I think we need to know far more about what the community thinks of this project. particularly the seniors since it is who it was originally proposed for. AND it needs to stay out of our parks.
The process that has been followed thus far on this project appears to be much worse and much more flawed than anything I have witnessed since moving to Trumbull. It very much appears that the focus is on a speedy completion rather than a quality outcome. That is very unfortunate and a bit hard to understand.
Ask the residents how they want their money spent!
Let the people decide.
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Before millions of taxpayer dollars are spent on building a new Trumbull Senior/Community Center, we ask the Senior/Community Center & Library Study and Building Committee (Building Committee) to first find out what Trumbull residents want and what they are willing to pay for. A project of this scale requires a comprehensive town-wide planning process to answer some basic questions. Do Trumbull seniors want the current center renovated or do they want a new center? Do Trumbull residents want a new senior-only center or a true community/senior center, and if so, with what amenities? Where would Trumbull residents want a new facility to be located?
From the beginning, this process has been flawed, yet the Town Council and Board of Finance have allocated $175,000 to the Building Committee to hire an architect to design this new facility. This money is being spent despite the fact that the need for a new senior center has not been established; initial resident surveys were ill-designed and elicited poor response rates. Currently, no financial projections have been done regarding the cost to run a new facility, membership numbers, or membership fee increases. A site has not even been selected. Nonetheless, our town government continues to push ahead, spending our tax dollars on this poorly planned process.
Please sign below demanding that the Town Council and the Building Committee put a halt to spending any more Trumbull tax dollars until sufficient community input has been gathered via a well written/comprehensive survey mailed to each household allowing for a fiscally responsible planning process to be put in place.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
May 26, 2016
Reached 100 supporters
May 17, 2016
143 Comments
Some of us have said the same thing for months. Someone is plowing right thru all these objections as though they haven't been uttered. It's time for the Committee to stop and create an improved questionnaire and send it to ALL Trumbull residents.
Some of the surveys were done many, many years ago and are now meaningless under current economic conditions in Trumbull and the state. Is it affordable now, and in the future? Consider also the current rates of out-migration when people retire.
I like the fact that the town is showing initiative in developing a project for its people. however, I feel at this point is not informed enough by the entire voting population. The focus should be on community not just one portion of community.
PROCESS MATTERS! An INCLUSIVE survey, assessment of COMMUNITY needs, PUBLIC meetings and THOROUGH discussions AHEAD of final decisions will serve us all BETTER in the long run.
I think we need to know far more about what the community thinks of this project. particularly the seniors since it is who it was originally proposed for. AND it needs to stay out of our parks.
The process that has been followed thus far on this project appears to be much worse and much more flawed than anything I have witnessed since moving to Trumbull. It very much appears that the focus is on a speedy completion rather than a quality outcome. That is very unfortunate and a bit hard to understand.
Ask the residents how they want their money spent!
Let the people decide.
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Some of us have said the same thing for months. Someone is plowing right thru all these objections as though they haven't been uttered. It's time for the Committee to stop and create an improved questionnaire and send it to ALL Trumbull residents.