Only one nugget this week
A perusal of the Council agenda for monday evening only reveals one, possibly contentious, item. That is tucked away in the approval to award the contract for the rebuilding of D'Arcy St. Local guy Tom Behan got the job by being the cheapest but his price was $319,839.62 over estimate. Negotiations with the Company managed to get the over-run down to $200K and that's the amount that the Town has to find from someplace. They did and the folks on Westwood Drive that were expecting another sidewalk this year will be disappointed, that money has gone to D'Arcy St. The problem now is that the low hanging fruit of tranferable projects has been drawn down. Where will the money for the next inevitable over-run come from?
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Maybe they could save some money on D'Arcy St by cutting the bike lanes
So. The folks on Westwood will be disappointed because they won't be "getting another sidewalk", eh?
What can the rest of us do to help? A tag day maybe? Wrap bandages? Some kind of home compassion visits for the afflicted?
I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes. Then I met a man in a $350,000 home who had but one sidewalk.
Get real, Ben. It ain't an issue. Fuck 'em, says Merk.
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