On Tuesday night the Winnebago County Board of Supervisors voted to partner with Outagamie County and put over $5 million into building a new Communication Arts Center at UW-Fox Valley. In talking with a few of the supervisors over the last few weeks I had a feeling the proposal might pass, but never by a 35-2 vote. Much of the credit for the vote must go to UW Fox Dean Jim Perry, who for years has been lobbying every member of the Board while building support for the project throughout the Valley.
I personally had mixed feelings about building the new facility until I had the opportunity to visit the current UW Fox "theatre." That structure is clearly a safety hazard, inferior to most high school auditoriums, and an embarrassment to the County and the UW System. It's good that the Board finally took some responsibility to upgrade its own property. But because county executives and boards for years chose to defer maintenance on the theatre (at the same time they were spending over $30 million for a jail), we now have to spend more money to get a smaller building.
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