For those who follow the gross miss-expenditure of town money - the Joint Operations Centre - it is already $454,000 over budget and it is estimated it will take a minimum of $1.800,000 to finish the project. This according to a full audit of the building's construction.
There was supposed to be a Financial Task Force - a five member panel which included Mayor Geoff Dawe and Councillor John Abel, to oversee the project.
The auditor reports that "in terms of leadership, the lack of an overall project management methodology in the Town was lacking. Clearly that should have been in place."
It is obvious that the Financial Task Force knew nothing about supervising or managing a construction project that ended up costing well in excess of $20,000,000.
And now Mayor Dawe's stated intent to seek a third term is to see through to completion two new major projects. This is laughable.
The Town must hire a reputable and experienced project manager to oversee the work and who can report to council the progress of construction and the budget numbers. Senior staff might also be employed.
But please keep elected officials out of meddling.
Posted by Anonymous to Our Town and Its Business at 13 April 2018 at 07:49
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How about Aurora's water and sewer rates? A 33% increase this year in sewer rates! It passed like a breeze. Hard to believe our elected officials did not need a little more detail on why. Maybe a note to the department head that says - "inflation is running about 2%, why is a 33% increase required this year?"
But like the operations centre there seems to be little accountability.
This operation centre spending looks bad on the Mayor. Especially when he and the Deputy stepped up to control spending on this project.
I Hope Aurora taxpayers are following closely.
No doubt Mrakas will hammer away at Dawe & Abel over this issue in the mayoral campaign.
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