Bum Rap

A few days ago I mentioned that the renovation to the Village Police Station was going to begin.  Well it started this past monday and a snag has been hit.  Two glitches, that I know of, have been encountered.  Part of the renovation is the installation of 2 new doors.  The doors were ordered based on a list of materials that were part of the original bid.  This material list was generated by the village workers that were going to be doing the work.  Evidently the specifics of the type of doors were not clear enough.  Two doors were delivered but not the correct specifications which should have been commercial fire doors.  Some of the ceiling tiles had to be replaced, so again the workers said they needed 16 tiles, but the original bid just called for 16 and guess what?.......16 cases of tiles were delivered instead of the 16 individual tiles.  This may not seem like a big deal but the work on the VP Dept has slowed to a crawl.  Worse yet.......the powers that be would like us to believe that both errors were the fault of Garlocks Lumber.  Garlocks was given a list of materials to supply a bid and they fullfilled their end of the bargain.

So what is my point!
The bid on the doors was low[non commercial and non fire doors] and the bid on the ceiling tiles was high [ 16 cases instead of only 16 individual tiles].  Who is to blame?  Not the three bidders, the fault goes on the VB for not checking the material list to make sure it was accurate before the bids went out.  We were also told that the Municipal Building Fund could only be used for projects like the VPD renovation.  But I am sure you will all agree that emergency measures can be taken to re-allocate these funds to where they are needed most.  Bottom line:  the VPD renovation would be nice but not needed in these uncertain economic times.

Later Added:  There are 2 workers on this project......one gets paid about $1000 per week and the other about $500. [I hope they were keeping busy during the building material set back] Totaling $1500 per week and then over a 2 week period this totals $3000 coupled with the $3000 material cost ...........which comes to $6000 total renovation cost.  Oddly enough this is the cap amount for the project...........the cap which is soon to be broken.