easy triples

The REAL PROBLEM with the new gym is those who believe it will ONLY cost ten million. A review of the City's recent construction projects indicate it will be an EASY TRIPLE of the intial 6.8 million figure. The 150k CC enclosure initial cost estimate wound up costing us well over 400k. The bathrooms can easily be built for 140k (and that includes a FAT 25% profit for the contractor) yet are closing in on 500k, if not more. Both are EASY TRIPLES, and the new gym will be too. TWENTY million, easy, and FIVE years to build (it took two years to build each of the little CC adition and the bathrooms). MILLIONS will disappear, and constant change orders and cost overruns will occur, just like before. Taxes and fees will continue to rise to pay for this colossal stupidity and the residents will be surprised, somehow, when we go into bankruptcy. The contractors will laugh all the way to the bank with their 300%, 400% and more profits and we will be bled dry. History will repeat itself, as apparently no lessons have been learned. Ignorance is bliss? Most of the time people get outraged and incensed when their money is stolen, but our Silent Majority doesnt seem to mind being mugged a bit. Can it be that they dont SEE what is happening? Or is it that they dont care? or both? Another sad situation. This IS Unhappy talk, of course, and will upset some of our residents, mostly the special interests. The truth hurts sometimes.