I've lost track of what I've posted about the relocation of ERS and NIFA to Kansas City.
It seems, from outside, to have been rather mismanaged. The latest problem is the reduction from $25K to $10 in the buyout payments to those who refused to move. (To be fair, the initial letter said the "maximum" payment would be $25K, but if a good bureaucrat had been involved in the drafting she would have questioned why the adjective, leading to a discussion of the fact that the pot of available money for buyouts was limited, and subsequently a rewording of the letter.
The opponents of the relocation have played their card well, wrapping the ERS and NIFA in the robes of "scientists". The story is a bit more complicated than that--ERS is social science and NIFA funds research.
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