Yes, the very same Harrison Construction owned by Paul Christopher Harrison.
Now why is that odd? Because a few years later, Harrison would be in front of MAYOR Misti Talbert asking for $145,000 in City money for a detention pond for his new employer: S2M2 – who had previously been turned down for that exact same detention pond but who then hired Harrison to go to City council (and Mayor Talbert) to beg for tax dollars. Turns out he was successful in grabbing $185,000 in tax dollars for his employer.
Weird, right??
[I only ask that you remember bullshit like this when your property taxes, water rates and electricity rates go up this year. After all, it ain’t Misti’s money she handed over. It’s yours.]
Here is the timeline of events. Remember, BEFORE all this took place, Misti was keeping the books for Harrison Construction. These blurbs are from the Lampasas Dispatch. Remember also, that Harrison and Talbert were City council members together at the same time in 2015 and 2016.
5/31/19 [page 5]: “The pond is estimated to cost $135,000, and McDonald said if he has it built, he will forego $75,000 he could have made had he turned the pond site into three residential lots. As a result, he asked the city to spend $105,000 on the pond – half of what he said it would cost S2M2 if the company sacrifices potential buildable space to create a drainage pond.Council members, however, said that cost is too high to justify for what they said would be minimal drainage improvements in the area. The council’s motion called for no city payment toward a detention pond.”
[McDonald failed to get the free stuff…so he sends in Greasy Chris Harrison three months later]
8/30/19 [page A4]: Lampasas company S2M2 Inc.,represented at Monday’s meeting by Chris Harrison,is seeking city cost-sharing for the detention pond, which would occupy three lots the company otherwise could have used to build houses in its proposed Brodie Estates subdivision. S2M2 is asking the city to spend $125,000 toward the detention pond, Harrison said. That amount, he told city officials, is about half what the water detention structure will cost the company — when factoring in pond development expenses, the value of the three buildable lots the company will sacrifice and the profit that the sale of three houses could have generated. The pond is not required for Brodie Estates.
“The mayor [Misti Talbert] said city officials need to think again about a detention pond“
[Now that former council buddy Harrison is asking, Mayor Talbert thinks they need to “think again”. Notice the cost has already jumped from $105,000 to $125,000. These wormy shits do this all the time.]
9/20/19 [page 4]: “the City committed to pay S2M2 a maximum of $150,000 for the company’s actual costs of surveying, engineering and building a rainwater detention pond in the subdivision. Council members have said the detention pond is not required to develop Brodie Estates.”
“Harrison said developers requested city cost sharing because adding the detention pond will cause S2M2 to sacrifice three lots it otherwise could have used to build houses. On another item, the amended development agreement specifies that the city will reimburse S2M2 a maximum of $40,000 for engineering, easement acquisition, construction and materials for a water line loop.”
Incredible!!
The Seven Goldfish went from “NO, we won’t spend $105,000” to “we should rethink this” at $125,000 to “here is $145,000 PLUS another $40,000 for some water line stuff”
Then of course, guess who S2M2 hired to do the dirt work and other stuff for the Brodie Estates subdivision? Harrison Construction! Such a nice, neat little circle jerk of scumbaggery. I’ve already requested the receipts for that work from City Hall. I’m very curious to see how that depression in the ground they call a “detention pond” cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Maybe it didn’t! Maybe it cost $80k and these clowns pocketed the rest! Who knows.
And Misti just happened to be on the Harrison Construction payroll before this for doing their books. Amazing! I wonder what else we’ll find out soon with my renewed digging!