I don’t know where to start.
I guess the old seventh inning stretch common in baseball is taking on a new role in our ball park construction. It seems to me that someone is stretching the truth.
El Paso Inc. published an article Sunday, January 26, 2014 telling us that the city’s project manager for the ball park is taking a new job with the city’s water utility.
What’s wrong here
As of Tuesday the Times is silent about this. Dead silent. How did the much smaller weekly scoop our daily newspaper? Can this lack of coverage be deliberate?
As the article points out, two weeks ago the project manager was happy to be working out in the field again.
The city says that a finance man will postpone his city retirement for 60 days to manage the completion of the project. One of the problems with this is that the contract the city signed says that the ball park will not be complete until the end of August. There has been talk of playing games during the season if the city will grant certain occupancy variances temporarily.
Who will our finance man consult with when dealing with the construction people? What does he know about construction other than where to sign the check? Who will be watching the chicken coop?
The city manager was quoted as saying the project was in it’s last quartile. The article says the project is 70% complete. The last quarter starts at 75%. Then again accurate numbers have never been a part of this project.
Where is city council on this? The water utility is a city department. Why not tell the project manager that his new job will start when he finishes the ball park? Do they want him to go?
Why?
Why would the project manager leave an important project like this and leave us in the lurch?
Could it be:
The project manager was in the way? Was he insisting that corners not be cut? Will this give the ball team owners more control over how the park is built like they have publicly have asked for?
Is the ship sinking?
The project manager wanted to get out from under the “sharp elbows” of the city manager?
The project manager giving too many interviews and the city wanted him to shut up?
What looked to me like a case study in how not to build a project seems now to be getting even worse.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Was he the guy who pleaded, “Me no Alamo” to CC over the $14MM change order last year?
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