A commentary by a Saanich resident.

Re: “Saanich needs to build its new operations centre,” letter, June 7.

Saanich Coun. Judy Brownoff’s letter on June 7 misses the point entirely.

No one is disputing the need for a new operations centre, and moving staff out of the aged trailers. What we are disputing is borrowing $150 million to fix the problem, and using an alternative approval process instead of a referendum.

Long-term councillor Brownoff states this site has been studied since 1998. She has been a councillor since 1993.

It’s been a generation since the “problem” was identified, which a new building would........

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