Almost a year ago I wrote about this expenditure;
Centralized Facilities Improvements – Milwaukee Depot Dock Renovation; To award a bid, 605 Companies, $202K
While I thought it was pretty expensive at the time, I assumed, it would be a solid aluminum deck for that kind of price tag. As I watched them work on the deck and landing this summer I noticed they dropped off 4″ thick cedar planks and I wondered how these would be implemented into the deck. They used it for the actual deck. When you have building materials like that they don’t really take on the shape you would like them to (did we learn anything from the Denty’s siding?) Also, Cedar takes on many shapes and forms as it weathers and if you think the gaps and lifts are bad now, give it a year.
I still don’t know how you can pay this kind of money for something and have this result. Maybe we should just pay the contractor a $1 and thank them for their humble service to the community. Some would ask how this passed inspection, oh never mind, city owned building.
If you want to get technical you could have inset the anchors and sanded down the surface to be level and in a year re-sanded and treated. But maybe they are way ahead of me? I wonder how many high heels got stuck at the ribbon cutting?
The contractor should have to pay gift tax for winning this game show.
This would appear to have been either a flaw in engineering, architecture and design, or a error of the contractor in using the incorrect material.
Our future mayor likes heels. Perhaps, this is a plot in the making.
Also, isn’t this the site of that innovation center, or whatever it’s called? Perhaps, this was a class project there in Boondoggle and Grifting 101.
‘If you can find something to sell someone you are in business.’ – Matt Paulson
FF 3:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDcm6zo55Y8
The one thing I will give Paulson credit for is being truthful. All StartUp Sioux Falls is a salesperson training course.
“How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.”
Henry David Thoreau
That’s what elevates the corporatist, which is sales. Say and do anything to make the sale. Make your numbers. It makes you look good, like a winner. Let customer service (everyone else in this world) deal with the problems that arise from your promises as a salesperson.