Check out the Court Jesters article in this week's Folio Weekly. We have serious problems in city hall if the things mentioned from the auditor's report about the courthouse mishandlings is true:
1. Nobody in the Delaney administration ever believed the courthouse could be built for $190 million, although the price tag was assigned in the Better Jacksonville Plan.
2. The city paid construction companies millions for work never done. Skanska pocketed $6.6 million in construction manager's fees, not for work done, but for the amount of time that has passed since the contract was signed.
3. Skanska earned $506,668 in bonus money for excellent construction management. One problem...construction never took place.
4. The mayor failed to mention that the CEO of Auchter is one of his best friends. Auchter/Perry-McCall was paid $1.2 million for nothing that can be used today.
5. The city is paying JEA $30,000 a month for chilled water for a facility that does not exist.
6. The city gave $8 million in loans to MPS (the company that built the garage), but never bothered to record any of these loans until auditors started poking around.
7. The auditor's report states that it will be 28 years before the city recoups one dime from the MPS parking garage deal.
8. The city won't collect tax revenue from the MPS deal because it requires the city to pay all of MPS's expenses, including taxes.
9. Jacobs Engineering's hiring was seen by the auditor to be duplicate services that should have been done or provided by city employees. Jacobs earned $6,581,721.
10. In total, the city has spent $64 million on poor decisions and has nothing to show for it.
To see full auditor's report, visit: www.folioweekly.com/folioblog
http://www.folioweekly.com/documents/courthouseaudit.pdf
ITS TIME TO SAY OUR GOVERNMENT ISN'T CAPABLE OF BUILDING A COURTHOUSE
I would invent the perfect woman, if I could invent people. Our government would build a ok courthouse if it could build a courthouse.
Don't they have to do one aspect of this correctly before we asked them to do more?
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Check out the Court Jesters article in this week's Folio Weekly. We have serious problems in city hall if the things mentioned from the auditor's report about the courthouse mishandlings is true:
1. Nobody in the Delaney administration ever believed the courthouse could be built for $190 million, although the price tag was assigned in the Better Jacksonville Plan.
2. The city paid construction companies millions for work never done. Skanska pocketed $6.6 million in construction manager's fees, not for work done, but for the amount of time that has passed since the contract was signed.
3. Skanska earned $506,668 in bonus money for excellent construction management. One problem...construction never took place.
4. The mayor failed to mention that the CEO of Auchter is one of his best friends. Auchter/Perry-McCall was paid $1.2 million for nothing that can be used today.
5. The city is paying JEA $30,000 a month for chilled water for a facility that does not exist.
6. The city gave $8 million in loans to MPS (the company that built the garage), but never bothered to record any of these loans until auditors started poking around.
7. The auditor's report states that it will be 28 years before the city recoups one dime from the MPS parking garage deal.
8. The city won't collect tax revenue from the MPS deal because it requires the city to pay all of MPS's expenses, including taxes.
9. Jacobs Engineering's hiring was seen by the auditor to be duplicate services that should have been done or provided by city employees. Jacobs earned $6,581,721.
10. In total, the city has spent $64 million on poor decisions and has nothing to show for it.
To see full auditor's report, visit: www.folioweekly.com/folioblog
http://www.folioweekly.com/documents/courthouseaudit.pdf
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