An additional $50,000 has been added to the Old City Hall debacle project as “contingency for possible expenses related to window treatments, landscaping and ‘additional improvements‘ [BLANK CHECK ALERT!].
Yes….it is a “contingency” amount. I am willing to bet that not only will the entire $50,000 get spent, but another $15,000 on top of that if/when they decide they need ‘window treatments’ as fancy as the ones in Dallas or Austin.
The City is in receipt of “pay request #3” from the contractor, indicating 54% of project complete (they anticipate mid-December finish…HAHAHAHAHA). Oh, and “there is some seeping on the walls, but he [who is he? Doesn’t say] has consulted with the mechanical engineer”
Sounds like another disaster in the making. Vague proclamations of seeping on the wall while an unknown person is supposedly looking into it.
How big is the pile of money they have set on fire now? I’m seriously losing track. Hold on while I peruse my own investigation notes….
…..ok. Looks like we are getting very close to $1,500,000.00 now. Between the change orders, the roof suddenly needing to be fixed (which JNW failed to notice when they collected $18,000 from Finley to do a structural analysis), now this $50,000…plus more to come.
Remember back in April of 2015 when city council was fighting over this entire project and $375,000 was set aside? Then the first estimate came it at $750,000? And Misti Talbert was all gung-ho for this train wreck anyways?? Saying she “couldn’t make an uninformed decision”? I sure do.
So we went from $375,000 to $750,000 and now to DOUBLE THAT at $1,500,000.00 and STILL not done.
I hope that when we fall into a recession (possibly next year) and sales tax receipts plummet and the city is staring a huge deficit in the face (because they will NEVER cut City Hall fat $100k salaries, we know that) and your taxes get raised YET AGAIN….well, I hope everyone remembers who was behind this colossal waste of money.
But hey, at least you can go look at your $100,000 TV sets hanging on the walls of your $1,500,000.00 City Hall for two hours twice a month during council meetings! Woo hoo! Money well spent. Perhaps we should name it the Misti-Talbert-Finley-deGraffenreid-Azbell-Memorial-City-Hall so nobody forgets the great minds behind this project.