The contract award for renovations to Aurora Fanily Leisure Complex was approved in committee last night.
The decision will be ratified next Tuesday.
I have been opposed to location and not persuaded by design concept.
I voted to award the contract.
It was the final step after weeks of duly authorized procedure.
Not to award the contract would simply deny reality.
There are other practical reasons.
Half a million dollars have already been been spent .
A financial report presented to a budget meeting on Monday references numerous expenditures for projects eventually cancelled or deferred.
Not on the list was $323,000 for renovations to the Town Hall.
No longer scheduled . Cancelled . Not deferred.
The initial plan proceeded to tender, bids were received, project cancelled by staff in that order.
An option proceeded as far as Council before being cancelled.
It's no small thing to cancel at that stage.
Staff , Architects and Engineers have completed their task. specification documents prepared for tender are voluminous and expensive to produce
They are "sold" to Contractors . hopefully familiar with Public Works projects.
Certified cheques are posted with the municipality.
The process is formalized and legally circumscribed.
It's a competition.
They are "sold" to Contractors . hopefully familiar with Public Works projects.
Certified cheques are posted with the municipality.
The process is formalized and legally circumscribed.
It's a competition.
Bids close at an exact hour. On a specified date.
They are opened in public, read into the record and referred for analysis and a check on performance competence.
They are opened in public, read into the record and referred for analysis and a check on performance competence.
Days of precise calculations are essential to complete a bid.
The investment of funds, man hours and risk are all inherent in the public process.
There is no room for error
A municipality that makes a practice of cancelling projects does not build confidence.
There is no room for error
A municipality that makes a practice of cancelling projects does not build confidence.
A municipality can acquire a reputation of being fickle.
Flibberty Gibbet.
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Christopher has been quiet for a while, did he have an issue with his PO?
Aurora already had an national reputation. /I suppose, given that scale, this nonsense if preferable.
What about the paving of the parking lot that was to take an unbelievable few months?
I looked for Mayor Dawe's letter. It wasn't on the website. The Auroran says it will come ' in time '. In time for what ?
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