West Kelowna City Hall

Regarding the referendum on the West Kelowna City Hall. 
 
Of course these people need a work place that reflects the 21st century.  They are our neighbours, and most importantly, our employees and it's our first obligation as employers to see that their working environment is as good as - or better than - we would have for ourselves.  I get very upset when people, the bosses if you like - suggest their workers should have anything but the best. "It's good enough for 'them' is heard all to often from people who obviously never had an employee them selves.
 
On the other hand, the proposed City hall is as ugly as sin.  I stayed in better looking barrack blocks in the Air Force and they were over 60 years old,  condemned, and ready to be torn down.  Haven't the people in West Kelowna any pride at all?  This is the place that represents you on the world stage.  This is your living room.  This is what you show off?  Maybe you don't care that you live in a dirt coloured box that's that so prevalent in the Okanagan. No one ever posts a picture of any of our buildings, public or privet, but it's 2016 folks.  Build something to be proud of.  If you can't put your city hall on a post card or on the cover of a tourist publication then it's just ugly.  Pure and simple.  Unsightly and unworthy and something to be shunned.
 
Yes.  Build these people a fine place to work.  Not a palace.  Just a fine, healthy, efficient place to work - at whatever cost.  But build a structure that we all can be proud of for God's sake.  A structure that reflects the best of our hopes and dreams.  To suggest that a real eye catcher costs a lot more money is a down right fallacy.  For not so much as a dime more, West Kelowna could have a real City Hall.  Not a glass and concrete brick with 1/2 the eye appeal of a Wal-Mart and 1/2 the colour of a Dollar Store.
 
Do it right for crying out loud.

Dave Winter