I’ve had a fair amount to say in the past about the condition at Stanton, but it
wasn’t really structural stuff. It was kind of more cosmetic and more peripheral stuff.
It’s very interesting. You go to Stanton, you walk in there, you take the elevator up — hey, the elevator works! — and you go to the rooms and they seem to work. It’s really amazing that a facility that looks kind of functional and normal and clean — no, I take that back — needs a $27 million upgrade. It isn’t readily obvious. It looks like it could use a paint job. It looks like it could use a good cleaning. But it’s amazing to me….
What sort of precipitates this? Are we living in luxury land, here? Is there a way to make this facility work? Or are these really pressing things? I heard a whole list of things that just shocked me — change the elevators? Elevators are hugely expensive things. What’s wrong with the elevators we’ve got? We’ve got other communities — small communities that are out there just desperate for capital infrastructure — and we’re taking a building that looks fairly functional, it seems like it meets the needs of delivering the health programs it’s intended to deliver, and yet we seem like we’re maybe pre-empting something by spending this money in advance. It just seems extravagant.