{"id":1234,"date":"2008-05-14T10:47:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T15:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2008-05-14T11:29:45","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T16:29:45","slug":"what-is-jci-protecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1234","title":{"rendered":"What is JCI protecting $$$$$$$$ 92 million!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Dixon has said repeatedly that all Johnson Controls will make on the Red Plan is 2 percent. This is either a lie or an example of gross incompetence on his part. Here’s what the District’s March 16th Two-Page DNT ad said about it:<\/p>\n

“For assessing the district’s needs and overseeing public discussions over an 18-month period, Johnson Controls received a lump sum of $250,000. For program managment over a 5-year period, according to its contract with the district, the company will receive 2 percent of the project’s construction costs. Other fees for design and engineering will flow throu Johnson Controls to other design firms and professional services providers.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a little more subtle but Dixon has repeatedly used the 2% ceiling.<\/p>\n

But Let Duluth Vote has an experienced Contract manager who has looked at the JCI contract (which was gotten only after filing a Minnesota Data Privacy Request” for this very public information. Here’s his analysis<\/a>: <\/p>\n

He adds up income totaling $92 million dollars. That’s more than a third of the cost of the Red Plan. That’s a considerable improvement on Dr. Dixon’s laughable 2% claim. <\/p>\n

Don’t expect to read this in the Duluth News Tribune. When Robert Aho first told them that the contract JCI offered him was a menace to the public good they decided it wasn’t worth a story. Then again the District has set aside $150,000 (three teacher’s worth) to advertise much of it going to the Trib. Why spoil a good thing when you can get a piece of the action as the District wrestles with its growing budget shortfall?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Dixon has said repeatedly that all Johnson Controls will make on the Red Plan is 2 percent. This is either a lie or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}