Workshops! These were just too fun to omit.
Right now, if you have a vacant structure, you have to board up all the doors and windows, to keep people from getting in.
It looks sad.
And kinda trashy.
The raccoons have definitely taken over.
But what if we made people paint doors and windows on the wooden plywood?
Better! Maybe!
It’s a thing cities do, apparently!
It kind of reminds me of when the stadiums put fake fans in the audience during Covid.
Sure, why not.
You can even get all trompe l’oeil about the whole thing:
Council liked this, so staff is going to draft some policy and bring it back.
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But wait! There’s more!
We already partner with ACC to give workforce training courses. Think things like HVAC training, plumbing and electric, etc, where you can get out and immediately start earning a decent income.
Right now we offer courses at the library, but if we had more space, we could offer even more. So we’re going to renovate some city buildings for this:
So the city is proposing using $240K of the Covid money to renovate and create some classrooms.
Everyone’s stoked about this. It’ll come back in some form to council.
The San Marxist 