I have written before about getting at the true cost of the moves from the soon to be demolished city hall into the multiple buildings that city council has chosen.
My last number came to $63.9 million. The city told us it would be $33 million on this page on the city’s web site.
I have been trying to keep that number updated, but it appears that we will not know about major parts of it until they are done. As Call Me Crazy commented on More on the roll-out (roll over) plan a city representative was quoted in the Times as saying “The city has already spent around $300 million publicly funding Downtown revitalization.” What is that all about?
The deception continues. The city has been issuing contracts for job order contracts for construction work. They are using these contracts for work related to the move out of city hall. Unfortunately state law does not require them to present these projects to city council unless the cost for an individual project exceeds $500,000.
In Minimal due to condition of building we saw that the city has been issuing work orders under the $500,000 threshold for work on these buildings. Since they do not have to publish the work orders, we will have to wait to get them through what are commonly called open records requests.
The city is under no obligation to produce a document that does not exist. We must wait to find out the true story.
We will though.
In the mean time I will turn to what the city is not spending money on and how we compare to other cities.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
Hidden from the people in forms of deceit!! Shame on you Wilson!
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