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Mayor Koch To Use Federal Money To Buy Munroe Building

Member submission by Bonnie Gorman

This is an outrageous abuse of Pandemic funds. This funding should be used for a myriad of Pandemic health needs (immunizations, health clinics, public health programs), not for an expensive vanity project. We could have saved Quincy Hospital if the administration had the will to do so. That would have served Pandemic needs.

Quincy does not need Quincy College. We already have Eastern Nazarene College, and UMass Boston next door, a short train-ride away. Quincy College has been a failed academic institution over the years. We do not need it. We can not afford it.

If Quincy College could qualify for our Mass. Community College system, they should do so. The failure rate of small colleges in Mass. and New England is high and only getting worse. As one of the very last municipally owned colleges in the United States, it is past due to move to the Mass. Community College system.

Please reject this vanity 'Pandemic' proposal for Quincy College. We do not need it, nor can we afford it.