Take a look at this December 1, 2014 presentation to city council. Presentation.
Among other things they tell council that the café building is scheduled to be complete January 29, 2015.
That’s today. You can take a look at the building through the city’s web camera. Camera.
Helen Marshall posted a comment the other day telling us that completion is now being forecast for late April, 2015.
How can city staff make a presentation to city council that is so obviously wrong?
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
If we were building a ball park in San Jacinto Plaza, it would already be completed. And it would have restrooms.
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and it would get a lot of free publicity from KVIA and The EP Times
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So even Engineering admits it is just 64% complete.
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How? Because there are no consequences for dishonesty and poor performance. Just the opposite; it’s rewarded.
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Well, the text next to the camera view says “complete by early 2015.” I suppose you could define April 2015 as early. Or maybe they mean “April Fool!”
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Only the taxpayer has to follow the rules. Heaven forbid if a taxpayer should not follow the rules, their house, care and first born will be taken from them!!
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I believe the reason San Jacinto Plaza wasn’t finished earlier was because the City didn’t have money to pay the contractors because they spent a lot of money on the ballpark and moving City Hall. That’s a lot of money, and something had to give.
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Maybe it’s complete, we paid for the minimal quality, not the premium.
For an extra fee, you receive the add ons. Kind of like the switch and bait advertising. Should have read the small print.
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So I heard a great rumor that ‘The Plaza’ is only paid for one month at a time as the city has funding…therefore hard on the contractor…
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If the contractor gets ALL of the money up front he MAY just vanish to . .. . . . the Canary Islands or. . . Baja California.
When I have work done around my house I only pay for THAT day’s work.
IF. . . and. . WHEN they come back to do more work or finish, THEN they get money for that.
Maybe its the . . . . Lithium in the water?
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The city stated in a press release of September 29 that one southbound lane of Santa Fe street would be closed for two weeks for construction of the Pedestrian Pathways. Three and a half months after the two weeks ended, Santa Fe street is torn up in both directions.
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Keep calm and carry on.
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Nothing new here. The city often cuts corners or fails to finish what it starts. No attention to details. Some time back they repaved one side of Belvidere, but they did not repaint the crosswalk lines or the turn lane line at the intersection of Belvidere and Mesa. So, we have half a crosswalk and an unmarked turn lane.
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