UPDATE: A city official reached out for me and got feedback on this project;
The deck is complete. The agreement is for the ancillary project of designing and constructing a wooden four garbage container enclosure on the North side of the building to match the rest of the deck. With the social stairs and sponsor signage on the North side, the garbage containers were out in the open and looked rather unsightly for the area, not to mention they were often overflowing. Koch Hazard (architect on the project) is basically constructing them at the cost of their design fee as part of a community project (plus they have to look across the street at the open garbage containers). We initially asked for quotes to amend this onto the initial deck contract but the quoted cost were a little high.
Even if the construction of a garbage enclosure is included in this price-tag, for that price, the garbage enclosure should be on the National Historic Register!
Remember when I told you the $1 a year rent for SF Startup was gonna cost us? (Consent agenda, Item #7) Looks like they are already in re-design mode on the uneven deck they built this last summer;
Granted, I have no idea what the architectural fee is for, but it seems suspicious considering the deck was finished already, or is it? Not sure it takes $5,800 in consulting fees to tell us we need to rent an industrial planer.
“All hands on deck!!!”
Did you know that most ships have a poop deck? AND, most ships ship things and are a part of commerce, that’s why they are called ships, which means they’re “entrepreneurial” in nature….. Oh, and someone around here calls their Dad “Poops”, too…..
Privately owned Koch Industries has business wealth like Walmart. Koch is known as a political donors network from funneled financial revenue into television and multi-media advertising. Somebody needs campaign money.
If Biden is reelected and dies in office, Kamala Harris becomes president. If Trump is elected he can be immediately impeached per treason and Kristi Noem becomes president. Noem indicated she’d run with Trump in September. She’s using Covid Aid money unofficially in a disguised campaign. Trump and Noem will not debate and have enough indirect popularity that they may win.
In any case, likely there’ll be a woman president. She’ll be Native American or Norwegian. When can I make a Vegas bet?
I believe the last passenger train to leave Sioux Falls left in ’65 (Is that right, Mike?) and from this depot. It was the Milwaukee Road. Since then, however, all it has been is “three buses from Fargo” around here, but it would be nice if we could get a better transit system around here, or those promised high speed trains we were once promised…. But until then, I guess we’ll just have to stand out on the deck, have a cold one, and dream about the days of trains, middle class homes, and good paying jobs…… #WhatDoUMeanTheFileCabinetDrawerIsDry?
What do you think is better, an Old Milwaukee or a PBR beer?…. I mean, just how fussy are you with your diesel?
The Hazards are good people and quite competent. I once went to school with one of them, too, but what kind of name is that for an architect? I mean, I can imagine a comment that goes like this: “Be careful, stay away from that building…. It’s a hazard…. You never know what could happen when you are near”…..
Trump/Noem: One is an orange menace, while the other a small mythical character…. Cum to think about it… All of that is what Stormy once said about Trump’s……
“Say, does anyone know if Taylor Swift is Norwegian?”….
The Update to this post is a nice follow up to the Aug 13 South Dacola post “Garbage In, Garbage Out”.
Four months later and garbage is still stored not only in an unsightly manner (such that the neighbor is taking up a donation simply to improve their view), but also against code.
“Koch Hazard (architect on the project) is basically constructing them at the cost of their design fee as part of a community project (plus they have to look across the street at the open garbage containers).”
Matt Paulson and StartUp Sioux Falls are apparently such awful neighbors that those nextdoor and within view have to take up collections in order to help them arrive into code compliance.
LOL! Yah, sure they are
The final phrase in the Reply above intended to mark a response of incredulity to the statement that Koch Hazard is “basically constructing them at the cost of their design fee as part of a community project”.
I have no diubt that $5,800 doesn’t cover the total cost of design, materials and labor for construction. But that amount certainly more than covers professional design fees to draw a simple garbage enclosure, especially given the confession of the City emissary that this structure was set to be amended into the original reconstruction.