The question is not so much whether a new boardroom is worth $625,920; as it is; should we be spending that much money unnecessarily; when there are so many other more important needs?
Lest you worry that your representatives on the board are not on top of things; Gordon Rowe is quoted as saying, “My general feeling is that it was more expensive than it was supposed to be.” And Mary Lee Martin offered, “I have no idea how it got so expensive.” But according to Martin, it is apparently worth the cost because, “Our employees suffered in the old building.” Define “suffered” please.
District officials anticipating irate tax payers, offered that the money didn’t come out of property taxes but from the sale of public property. And that property was originally bought with what exactly, if not with tax dollars? To top it off, Rigo Chavez said the details of the sale are “confidential”.
Let me get this straight; the details of public servants, acting within their public service, and selling public property, are not for the public to know.
Gran did not ask, or she did not report the answer to the follow up question;
What? ??
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
The Trib: APS renovation costs going up
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Are you refering to this article?
APS boardroom has price tag: $625,224
By Susie Gran (Contact)
Monday, December 18, 2006
http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2006/dec/18/aps-boardroom-has-price-tag-625224/
The article also omits some other bad things APS did. Someone who has worked on remodeling that building told about several of them:
1. If they had listened to the building manager before they bought it, they could have anticipated many of the costs to address deficiencies, or arranged to pay less for the building because of them.
2. The city dragged its feet on these code corrections, including life safety issues, and wanted to be "grandfathered in" without fixing them.
3. Originally part of the building was to be rented to outside tenants, to offset its costs. Instead, APS offices have expanded to fill the whle building.
also the 625,224 is the reported costs. do not ask about the unreported costs or the additional items which were not labled as boardroom, yet function in or for it.
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