Many good points -- a few thoughts...
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...A beautiful arts and crafts bungalow was destroyed due to clearly incompetent fire fighting. Late arrival followed by tangled fire hoses, a hydrant not functioning and other miscues made it look like a scene from the Keystone Cops....
If we criticize every attempt to improve, we won't ever move forward. Some steps will fail, and some will have costs. I share anguish over lost historic structures, but in the final tally, more were lost due to the city's economic failures than to some ineptitude in the transition to efficiency.

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...The true measure of what an EMF will only be told long after he departs.
As the 'true measure' of many of our past politicians and administrators is now just being told.