"You Guys Aren't Getting A School
Until You Pay More Money."
HEADLINES:
After Three Years Of Missed Deadlines The Ham. Ave. School Price Tag Has Ballooned From 24 To 30 Million.
Now, The BET Finally Wants To Take A "Closer Look" At A Project That Was Supposed To Only Take 18 Months!!!!
Frank Mazza's Building Committee Has Requested $500,000 In Interim Funding To Pay For Outstanding Building Modifications And Change Orders.
Mazza Says He Is Sure That Hamilton Avenue School Will Receive A Temporary Certificate Of Occupancy (TCO) By The End Of The Month, Provided That The Mob Connected Contractor Receives More Of Your Tax Dollars.
QUOTES:
"We've been through this before with previous requests," said BET member Larry Simon. After three missed deadlines, "you've lost credibility." "We want to make sure we get the TCO ASAP," said BET chairman Stephen Walko. "I don't think the pressure is off to finish up."
THE STORY:
Town to monitor Ham Ave. funds
Town officials will start keeping a more watchful eye over how much money they're spending on the delay-mired Hamilton Avenue School project.
After the project missed the town's latest completion deadline of Aug. 15, the Board of Estimate and Taxation last Friday agreed to set aside an extra half-million dollars to help pay for remaining work at the site, with a caveat - it wants to know how the money is being spent before doling it out to the school's building committee, officials said.
The board has already approved three prior requests for funding - one in June 2007, then in January 2008, and again in May 2008, totaling nearly $1.3 million - on the promise that the project would be finished by several interim deadlines that were later missed....
...School officials are now hoping to receive a temporary certificate of occupancy for Hamilton Avenue School by the end of August, so students can move out of temporary modular classrooms and into the new facility by mid-October.
The shift also would allow nearby Glenville School students to move out of the four district schools, to which they've been assigned this fall, and into the modulars while they await renovations of their aging school building....
Please Read The Full Greenwich Time Story
You Won't See This In The Greenwich Time:07/31/08 Ace Reporter Chris Fountain Was The Only One Smart Enough To Do A Simple Google Search On Worth Construction.
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