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So far I like Bryan's input the best. By far. And Moses, of course.

JP, one of the issues that turns on this question has to do with the expectations we verbally place on workers, and in writing, versus the signals that workers get which can be contrary to the expectations. We want public servants to be professional, and to serve their customers efficiently. If you house them in a broken-down abandoned school building with a leaky roof and no parking, are they going to provide obviously professional service? if state troopers were asked to drive cars that are ten years old (hey, that'd save a much of money), would they be as proud? Let's say that everything they have is functional. But needs a coat of paint. Let's say we take them out of those snappy wool uniforms, and place them in green dungarees (for easy recognition) and a specially-colored cotton T-shirt? It's cheaper for the taxpayer, after all. but how would that impact their perceptions of their jobs, and our perceptiosn of their performance? I'm not tring to answer this question, just hoping most of the folks here at least understand it. Do you?