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"Red Phone, I was hoping you could find out how the county could build a $4 million visitors center at the base of Anderson Dam. In a time when they cannot provide adequate law enforcement or road repairs, and are always trying to find more ways to tax or fee us to death, how can this be built? How can they justify building it at the base of a non-destination site that another overpriced government agency says they cannot fill over 50-something percent because it may fail in an earthquake. On top of that the cost does not include the thousands of dollars in county staff time spent on designing and approving the project or the thousands of dollars for architects and engineers to draw the project. And on top of that when was the last time you saw a government project come in on budget and where is the money to staff and maintain this site going to come from? One more comment. It is time for government agencies to drop the prevailing wage requirement on their projects. It is time to drop the requirements that unions have forced on the general public projects. There are many, many, many, non-union companies out there that have done beautiful work on government projects, and were forced to pay their employees the ridiculous wages just because some gang of thugs "negotiated" it into their contract. Please let us know how the county is justifying this project."