Sac St is opting out

[Spanky2]

What the hell is a parking surface lot? They want to build homeless housing next or on the UM campus? Time for Bodner to dust off his resume.

 

[Spanky2]

Maybe that’s a way to get our enrollment numbers up? They count the homeless in the numbers.

 

[PlayerRep]

UM would collapse if Bodnar were to leave UM now.

Engen is the one quoted in the article.

This is what Bodnar said:

"One of the collaborative ideas that seemed to be farther along in talks is UM’s possible use of the old library building downtown.

“That’s a great opportunity for UM and the City of Missoula to talk about that move across the river and creating anything ranging from classroom space if that continues to be in demand to labs to who knows what,” Engen said. “The philosophy around whatever we do there will be people first.”

Bodnar pointed out there will likely be pushpack to some of these ideas.

“There’s a lot of constituencies that have a stake, so to speak, in having separate institutions,” he said.

While the discussions are preliminary and ongoing, Bodnar said making any moves is a question of timing and bandwidth.


“Some of these ideas are good ones that we’ve discussed and need to revisit, and I think there’s still more out there” Bodnar said. “I want to continue to think about it, and not just think about it, but talk about what this would look like.”

The Faculty Senate and Bodnar suggested creating a more formal working group to discuss any collaborative efforts between the city and university in more detail going forward."

 

[Hoops watcher]

Football games are major events for a school that benefits from concession sales and parking revenue.

As a side note it appears that parking revenue will be go away or be greatly reduced in the future anyways. The current plan apparently is to trade all the large parking lots around the stadium to the city in exchange for the old library building. The city will then gift the parking lots to the homeless industrial complex to build more “subsidized” housing, while UM can have the old library, which apparently was so decrepit that it wasn’t acceptable to fulfill its current mission as a safe reliable place for homeless to watch porn, and UM will use this prize for more classroom and lab space (a need I’m sure is based out future enrollment projections).

https://missoulian.com/news/local/um-city-of-missoula-consider-merging-resources-services/article_ce828fd5-7d5c-54e7-b874-7b21fb530745.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1

With one party rule you always get empire builders. At least as long as they have access to other people's money.

 

[Spanky2]

UM would collapse if Bodnar were to leave UM now.

Engen is the one quoted in the article.

This is what Bodnar said:

"One of the collaborative ideas that seemed to be farther along in talks is UM’s possible use of the old library building downtown.

“That’s a great opportunity for UM and the City of Missoula to talk about that move across the river and creating anything ranging from classroom space if that continues to be in demand to labs to who knows what,” Engen said. “The philosophy around whatever we do there will be people first.”

Bodnar pointed out there will likely be pushpack to some of these ideas.

“There’s a lot of constituencies that have a stake, so to speak, in having separate institutions,” he said.

While the discussions are preliminary and ongoing, Bodnar said making any moves is a question of timing and bandwidth.


“Some of these ideas are good ones that we’ve discussed and need to revisit, and I think there’s still more out there” Bodnar said. “I want to continue to think about it, and not just think about it, but talk about what this would look like.”

The Faculty Senate and Bodnar suggested creating a more formal working group to discuss any collaborative efforts between the city and university in more detail going forward."

Building housing for the homeless on the UM campus won’t slow the possible collapse of UM. Not many parents will be pleased about the prospect of the homeless wandering around campus attempting to engage students in conversation. Also, with an abundance of classroom space, why would UM need the old Missoula library?

 

[Dillon]

I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of an idea at this level of stupid before. Bodner would do well to stay as FAR away from Engen and his hairbrained scemes as he can get.

The fat man smells blood in the water.

I have always thought that if you can't take care of yourself how can you take care of a city!

 

[argh!]

UM would collapse if Bodnar were to leave UM now.

Engen is the one quoted in the article.

This is what Bodnar said:

"One of the collaborative ideas that seemed to be farther along in talks is UM’s possible use of the old library building downtown.

“That’s a great opportunity for UM and the City of Missoula to talk about that move across the river and creating anything ranging from classroom space if that continues to be in demand to labs to who knows what,” Engen said. “The philosophy around whatever we do there will be people first.”

Bodnar pointed out there will likely be pushpack to some of these ideas.

“There’s a lot of constituencies that have a stake, so to speak, in having separate institutions,” he said.

While the discussions are preliminary and ongoing, Bodnar said making any moves is a question of timing and bandwidth.


“Some of these ideas are good ones that we’ve discussed and need to revisit, and I think there’s still more out there” Bodnar said. “I want to continue to think about it, and not just think about it, but talk about what this would look like.”

The Faculty Senate and Bodnar suggested creating a more formal working group to discuss any collaborative efforts between the city and university in more detail going forward."

looks like um might collapse if bodnar stays, given the numbers. also, he's not just going to think about an idea, he's going to talk about it? a real man of action...