AFTERWORD

• Throughout the Town Meeting, it was clear that many people had other ideas for new major facilities that were at the same stage (proposed Design Study) as those described in this presentation. This is as it should be. A Town Meeting is not the occasion to decide which designs should be seriously studied, much less what the conclusions of those studies should be.

• Ideally, a 5-Year Plan should include the following categories:

  • Maintenance & Operation of existing facilities and programs.
  • Construction & Commissioning of completed engineering designs.
  • Engineering Design of new facilities chosen by thogough evaluations.
  • Concept Evaluation: Comparison of scientific potential, technical feasibility and probable cost of competing proposals for new facilities.

• Traditionally the final category has been relegated to semi-democratic processes such as this Town Meeting and the prior efforts of self-organized groups of Users. While new initiatives must always have “grass roots” origins, these partisan efforts must evaluated and compared much more thoroughly than is possible in 1 year of panic before each 5-Year Plan. A step is missing.

• I therefore propose that TRIUMF create a standing LRPC to fulfill this role. This body would receive proposals asynchronously and review them full time.