The budget document states that the project cost increased nearly a million dollars "due to higher-than-anticipated construction bids." This would suggest the way the County is bidding these projects needs to be reviewed. Bids should be coming in at the amount set by the County, or below. If the firms that bid couldn't meet that amount, the bidding process should be widened, not ended.
Have you ever posted a positive article?
ReplyDelete7:38 - Yes. Lots of fawning coverage and attaboys for our Republican governor.
DeleteThat's the price of a one bedroom condo!
ReplyDelete7:45 - I tried to calculate how many months' rent that would be for Dyer, but I got a divide-by-zero error. LOL
DeleteIt would have been helpful if you had included the actual amount budgeted, so readers would have a better idea of the scale of this cost overrun.
ReplyDelete7:38: That's not the job of a journalist, despite what you may find in other local media outlets, my friend.
ReplyDelete7:45: Yeah, think how many homeless they could have housed for that amount. Government waste in action.
7:45: It sounds pretty massive to me for a storm drain project. This may be up there with the Pentagon paying $640 for a toilet seat.
ReplyDelete"It sounds pretty massive to me" is not an actual number.
ReplyDeleteYou can buy a toilet seat for $20. A $640 toilet seat is 32 times the cost of the former, so it's very easy to say that's an unreasonable cost.
ReplyDeleteSo what is a "reasonable" cost for this project?
He hasn't fawned on the Governor since he approved the purple line. Dagger in the back.
ReplyDeleteAnd Dyer got scooped on the location of the Marriott headquarters.
ReplyDelete8:50: So did every other media outlet. It was a ****ing press release, you idiot.
ReplyDeleteShut up, we're watching the peaceful transition of power.
ReplyDelete#BarryMcGuireEveofDestruction
@906 - way to keep it PG dumbshit
ReplyDeleteSo why is Dyer not telling us the total cost of the project? It doesn't fit the narrative he's trying to spin? Whata great "journalist," said no one ever.
ReplyDelete@746 - is that why your so pissed? More housing for the hobos means a chance you can move out your mom's basement?
ReplyDelete"Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett's recommended FY-2018 capital budget... document states that the project cost increased nearly a million dollars "due to higher-than-anticipated construction bids.""
ReplyDeleteDo you have a link to this document? This would include the total cost of the project.
I truly don't have any dog in this fight, but I think it's a fair question to know what the originally budgeted figure is for context. Thanks.
ReplyDelete