Community Center Facility Renewal Request - Assignment Example

We appreciate and understand the fact that, as you say, "Bankstown is fortunate to have access to many community facilities for residents of all ages and cultures and with a variety of interests." At the same time, however, we are sure you would agree that, within reason, a community cannot do enough to help its citizens, especially those at an impressionable age. For that reason, we would argue that the benefit of even just one more youth center would far surpass the cost. The problem as we see it is that the enormous potential of how youth centers help kids on their path toward maturity is far more difficult to quantify than a mere cost analysis can do.

The most important element in CBD Renewal Project is that middle term-renewal. Renewal of a project carries with connotations that reach well beyond merely creating a more attractive facade. In order to fully renew a community, a long term vision is required that not only presents a more attractive front, but an entirely new foundation. The dilapidated facilities that you mentioned in your kind letter are best viewed as just one dimension to the more complex issue of rebuilding the broken spirit of our community.

It was the breaking of that spirit that led to the decay of these buildings. A youth center is important not only in immediate terms of financial and social benefits but as a basis upon which to build and strengthen the very vitality of the neighborhood in which is centered. We respect your position and knowledge enough to suggest, with all modesty, that we are just as concerned as you about renewing the greatness of the community and rekindling the spirit to keep it vibrant and lively. What time has ravaged, youth can reclaim.

The disrepair in which our facilities can be found should not be viewed as detached from the personality of the surrounding area. It is important, of course, to repair what already exists, but in order to fully renew the spirit of the community responsible for the lapse in management and care, we must address the generations to come. It is our duty and obligation to reach out to our youth to inform them with ideas of cultural and societal respect at an early age. Only by producing a generation that is endowed with self-respect can ever hope to create a society that respects others.