I haven’t asked for this article and I’m too cheap to pay to read it in the Timberjay which is behind the newspaper’s paywall but I got this secondhand email with a list of things gone wrong with JCI’s St. Louis County School project. If the Timberjay keeps reporting the news they’ll probably get another threat by JCI of a slap suit:
– The art room kiln failed to pass the fire marshall’s inspection
– Missing ceiling tiles
-The security cameras are mounted upside down
– The score board at the Cherry School does NOT work ..when the head custodian asked about it, he was told to “go climb on ladder and jiggle the bulbs.”
– Johnson Controls made more than $3.5 million in change orders without prior Board authorization … AND these changes orders mean “LOWER QUALITY MATERIALS”
– BOard members were concerned about “ERRORS” … including “CODE VIOLATIONS” …and that the Board felt the costs for fixing it should be assumed by Architectural Resources … BUT Johnson Controls said there is a clause in the contract that says the Board has to assume the costs.
– The District’s contingency fund (the District’s “slush fund”) was already deplated last year… and they still have building to do. [this should sound familiar to Duluth voters]
– The work at Cherry and Tower has already exceeded their BUDGETS
