I am not worried about the "option" to purchase or buy-out a buidling or company in the area....I am worried about ISU actually getting it done. I have never seen any business entity take longer to do anything than ISU does. Reading the article made me laugh out loud..."we made an offer but have not heard anything" BS! If you are in the business of obtaining land and property for the master plan then you don't wait for "them to call you back" you go find out the answer! And this is why it will take ISU FOREVER to get it done. FOREVER! Just to do something simple, they have to have a meeting about the meeting, to have a meeting about who will attend the meeting, to have a meeting about what happened in last weeks meeting, to have a meeting to create a committee to have a meeting about the mission, to have a meeting to take a vote to decide when the next meeting will take place, to have a meeting to decide to hire a consultant, to come in and have more meetings, to have a meeting to decide to implement a new plan, to have a meeting to backtrack and not implement a new plan, to have a meeting to approve the minutes from the last meeting which didn't have quorum so they couldn't have the meeting, to hold another meeting to have a nice lunch provided by Sodexho, to have a meeting to approve a change to next weeks agenda, to have a meeting to decide which staff member should call upon the owners of a property, to have a meeting to make sure that in deciding which staff member is giong to call upon the owners of the property it was determined which staff member fairly and without any preference or prejudice, to have a independent committee come in and review what has occurred in all these meetings and determine if the committee and all meetings were handled properly, to hold a meeting to approve the payment of the consultant for providing lackluster data and little if any usable data (of course they will approve payment for subpar work), to hold a semester end meeting that will include hotel rooms, presentations, cocktail hours and dinners for 3 nights in the most expensive location possible, so as to have another meeting while at the year end retreat someone can point out in passing that efficiency and effectiveness of anything that has happened over the entire semester is very, very poor and pathetic, soo.....
of course that person is the only productive individual in the entire situation and they will leave ISU as quickly as possible because they can't stand working in an environment where nothing productive happens!
So, do I think that this article means anything? Not really, because if recent events mean anything...it wiould take ISU more than a year to just complete some simple paperwork to transfer deed or title of property. ISU has such amazing potential and great leadership, but the problem is that Dr. Bradley can't do everything...he can only reach and oversee so much...
