Thursday, October 23, 2008

the pattern is clear

The bathrooms were certainly worth a bundle to the contractors- we paid 500k+ for two small bathrooms that actually cost 140k to build and includes a FAT 25 % profit for the contractor! Where did the extra 360k go, above and beyond the actual costs? The CC enclosure should have cost no more than 100k, tops, yet we paid over 500k- where did THAT excess 400k go? LOTS of our tax money disappearing and NO explanations that make ANY sense! One expensive fiasco after another, repeatedly, continuously- and all the responsibility of this City Manager. the Council is also much to blame for NOT providing ANY meaningful oversight to any City projects. They just rubber-stamp whatever the City Manager says is right. Constant change orders and cost overruns lead to 300%, 400% and more profits for the contractors. How many ways can it be pointed out as HORRIBLE mismanagement at best, and criminal at worst? We have the ONLY 250k bathrooms this side of Trump Plaza. The worst part is that they learn NOTHING from each project and each one costs us more. When they have wasted all our tax monies they just raise our fees and tax millage rates so they have MORE money to disappear. They count on the peoples apathy and ignorance to allow them to stay in power, and so far they have been right. Enough is enough.

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