What I'd like to do to improve the food stamp program

[LWolf]

67. We renovated several years back.

That renovation involved tearing an entire wing down and replacing it with a brand new wing in a different location.

It can be anything it needs to be to achieve the purpose.

In ANY area funding is hard to come by. That's a whole different issue. The number of things that should happen, that are possible, that don't happen because of funding are legion. Our bond for building 2 new schools and renovating the oldest was passed while the economy was flying high. We got a lot more out of that money when we actually used it because by then the economy had crashed and EVERYTHING was cheaper. Including construction projects.

We'd originally intended to "fix" our old wing; it's not the first time it would have been updated; it was 70 years old. There were so many problems, including leaks, though, that the cost to repair and get up to current codes was actually MORE than building the new wing. So we rearranged everything, including parking lots, athletic fields, and playground. We got a new kitchen out of it; it's large, and actually HAS appliances in it...that have never been used for cooking, because we're still shipping pre-made crap in.