If you come out with an idea, people will say you are putting the cart before the horse. If you do all this stuff first, then people will say you don't know what you want.
This will help our department to meet the requirement that four people man any piece of equipment at any given time, and will also significantly reduce overtime costs.
When it comes to the building delays, people need to look at the long term and not just the present. These projects have so much potential for the future, and once they are completed and in use, it will have been worth the wait.