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So what that Eastern Nazarene isn’t planning to close …
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Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch submitted a proposed ordinance to the Quincy City Council at its meeting Monday night to begin the process of rezoning Eastern Nazarene College’s campus for senior housing.
So what that college is still in operation on its campus as well as running slightly in the black, unlike Quincy College per the most recent audit of the City of Quincy’s books even given an over $2.5 million subsidy provided to it by local taxpayers.
A key reason why the hard times?Â
The number of potential college-bound students is declining and is expected to continue to decline with many lesser colleges thus ending up closing.
Regardless of Eastern Nazarene’s plight, what can one say other than Mayor Koch has a jones to feed as regards redeveloping Quincy in his image.
Fredo, you’re dead to me
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That and all but assuredly also plotting to set up one of his generous campaign contributors to redevelop the campus even if Eastern Nazarene appears to not be a ready seller of its property at this time.
Further, one cannot help but wonder if this proposal is a stealth way for Mayor Koch to concurrently see the migrant center at Eastern Nazarene College de facto evicted as his announced plans will all but assuredly hasten the closing of Easter Nazarene College.
The arguably key stealth line of attack by Koch?Â
At least some prospective enrollees will likely head elsewhere for college and so enable Koch’s variously problematic to arguably illegal plans.
Leading the way into seeing yet another lawsuit filed against the City of Quincy?
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And finally as well as at the same time, one can only be surprised that Mayor Koch did not currently submit a bond authorization request to fund an eminent domain taking of the Eastern Nazarene campus and so set the table for a connected developer to be named later.
Not yet anyway.
Not that I think it’s such a bad idea, but it’s obvious election year pandering for the senior vote.
More importantly, youse wanna put down a benjamin on whose ending up doing the deal after the Naz gets two in the hat?
Wonderful of him to place them on notice of their future eviction (death by strangulation). He might as well get a pillow and put them out of their misery.
Right “shortcut” but the wrong party to “euthanize,” however.
Why not the high school? It’s much bigger
All these colleges are going out of business. After 47 years of regurgitating the same useless information over and over to suckers who pay $150Gs, people are figuring it out. All these “educators” are really stupid.
Johnson,
FYI: Eastern Nazarene ran a bit over $100k in the black in its most recent fiscal year in spite of tough times. It is also revamping of its curriculum so as to offer what prospective students will find compelling.
Time will tell if its efforts will work.
Quincy College, on the other hand, ran over over $100k in the red in FY 2022 and this was AFTER local taxpayers were stuck with funding a $2.5m subsidy for the college even though roughly 80% of its students are NOT locals AND the college received millions in federal COVID-relief funding. Funding this subsidy requires around an extra $65 annual surcharge upon the average residential property tax bill.
Obviously, our peerless mayor is fishing for an honorary AA.