
Dear President Cotton,
Thank you for your long and irate email concerning the unfinished dormitory project. We’d like to review how we got where we are. A decade ago, Willard College’s Strategic Planning Subcommittee of the Planning Committee communicated to the Board of Trustees that although the college age population will be falling of the demographic cliff that it was time to expand the campus housing stock. Samantha Swine of Holstein, Holstein and Burger consulted on hiring the architects. During the entire process from concept to execution, no one seemed to notice that the site had overlap with a swamp. These kinds of things are often difficult to detect, especially if there has been a lot of rain or if birds are flying around. Again, like the demographic cliff, no reasonable person could have predicted these problems. Even the mosquito infestation was not necessarily swamp connected.
At present we are looking for creative ways to repurpose these not-quite-finished facilities.
Sincerely,
VP of Facilities, Thwart Cobbleskill and VP of Finance, Percosette Waterson