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Options Beyond Global Purchase Questioned at Meeting

At many recent meetings of the Howell Township Council, the proposed purchase of the Global building as the future town hall has appeared on several agendas. 

At Tuesday night's meeting, it was not on the agenda, but the issue still came up during the public comment portion of the evening. Grace Abramov asked the council if there was a plan for what would happen if negotiations to purchase the Route 9 property do not go through. 

Even as the process really gathered steam over the past few months, members of the council have said that all the steps taken did not assure that the purchase would happen, and Abramov wanted to know what steps were being taken in the case of that happening. "There's always that except or in the case of or something doesn't go through, do you have a secondary plan," she said. 

One of the reasons given for the purchase is to not only consolidate the township's operations, but also to remove employees from buildings that are aging and deteriorating including the engineering building. Abramov cited that structure located just down the road from town hall in her questions put to the council. "Where do you expect to put all these people if these buildings are not functional for them," she said.

Mayor Robert Walsh said that like other decisions made at the dais, he was not looking at hypotheticals or alternatives when it comes to the Global purchase. With all the decisions the council makes, the mayor said he focuses on the issues in front of them rather than possibilities that are not in front of them. Abramov said that approach to this situation was "not acceptable." She added, "I don't think that you can just assume that this is going to happen. It may happen, but I also think that you have to have a backup plan."

Walsh said that over the years that this process has developed the township and the council have looked at alternatives and know of other things they could do, an idea that was elaborated on by Deputy Mayor William Gotto. "I think we have the answers you're looking for already," he said. "It's the other options that were outlined in the Neville Report."

That report, which can be found here  was written by architect Wayne Neville and outlined several possible paths for the township to 

Gotto said in his opinion that if the Global purchase falls through, "in a very short period after that decision was made not to buy the Global building, we would decide do we do options two or three," he said.

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Say you have years of priceless data stored on your hard drive and all your install disks are at home. Then your whole house burns to the ground, and while you were busy trying to save less important things like, oh say, your kids, you totally forgot to disconnect your computer from everything and carry it out too. All that data would be lost.

What would you possibly recommend to prepare for and prevent such loss?

It’s always a good idea to back up important files either on to CD’s or an external drive. And not just to protect important data from being lost in case of a catastrophic event such as a fire or natural disaster, but in case of hard drive failures.

The life of a hard drive is estimated to be around 10 years, so if your’s is getting up there in age, it might be a good idea to start backing up files now.

Really important files, like home or office inventories, that you need to prove loss to your insurance company in case of fire or other disaster, should be placed on CD’s, then placed in a safety deposit box at a bank.

ADDED COMMENT:

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How will a CD or external hard drive handle being exposed to a 350° temperature? I don’t think very well. The burning point of paper is somewhere around 450°, but ask yourself, at what temperature does plastic begin to warp, to become soft and distorted?

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