Monday, November 3, 2008

Of course it would be better if those with valid complaints posted them here AND voiced them at the Council meetings. The City Manager and the Council are counting on people getting discouraged and/or moving on to other topics. Make a Freedom of Information request and keep a copy for yourself, whether its an email or a paper request, so you can document when the request was made and what it covered. It will be ignored otherwise. Good documentation and persistence increase the odds of getting a response of some kind, altho it may have been massaged and manipulated prior to handing it over. At least they are on record attached to SOME numbers that can be scrutinized for accuracy and appropriateness. For example, the bathrooms came in at 414k, which may be accurate BUT are certainly NOT appropriate, since it can easily be built for 140k. Where did that extra 275k go, over and above what the actual costs are? That is an easy TRIPLE of what it SHOULD have cost, close to $400 a square foot.

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