It s common knowledge the public sector takes longer to build things than the private sector.
Government just moves slowly.
That s an accepted fact of life. Sometimes, the slow pace is for a good reason as appears to be the case in Mukilteo s efforts to build a city hall and police station. The current plan is to move ahead slowly to allow the city to put away enough money so when it comes time to break ground taxpayers won t have to directly foot the bill with higher property taxes. The schedule now has preliminary design work getting done this year and next, with construction to start in 2003. The process to relieve the city's municipal facilities deficit has been long and sometimes torturous, but the end may be in sight.