text: He's so far out there, I'm not going to the Chris Christie comparison....but it makes sense to close a facility that is paying such high rates per person.  Why did they not start with a smaller, less expensive facility with options to add on?  I think the REAL problem is the construction companies/developers seem to get lots of government contracts at the taxpayers' expense. For examples, if the city of Eugene just bought the EWEB building from the beginning and retrofitted it, the costs would have been millions of dollars less, or if they just retrofitted the current (now demolished) city hall for earthquake protection, that also would have saved US millions of dollars.  It's so easy to spend other peoples' (tax payers) money.  This has been an on-going issue for decades in Eugene and Lane County.