{"id":1672,"date":"2009-01-29T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T16:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2017-03-02T22:32:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T03:32:58","slug":"judy-judy-judy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1672","title":{"rendered":"Judy Judy Judy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve just been reviewing that silly column Judy Seliga-Punyko had published <\/a>in the Trib. She begins:<\/p>\n

“I attended the open house this week at Old Central High School, at which local contractors met with architects to receive information to help them prepare bids for more than $270 million of projects under the district’s long-range facilities plan (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Contractors eager for school projects,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jan. 22).”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Judy has a faulty memory. The document passed out to contractors that night listed the “project budget” not as $270 million but $296,034,405.00. Judy was $26 million off. Why is this discrepancy significant? Because with Judy’s published figures the Red Plan is well under budget. The real figures show the Red Plan is now at least $13 million bigger than we, or the Minnesota Dept. of Education, were told it would be.<\/p>\n

The Red Plan that the District sought permission to build from the Minnesota Department of Education was $293 million. They didn’t give the District permission for $60 million of it but only about $233 million. That apparently isn’t stopping the District from letting bids for the entire amount and then some.<\/p>\n

How much more?<\/p>\n

I her article Judy says that we’ve already spent $10 million on Stowe and Lakewood schools. Add that to $296 million and you get $306 million a $13 million increase over the promised $293 million. Plus, its not clear if those charges include the revenue that JCI will be paid. <\/p>\n

Its been suggested that JCI’s take could be close to 20%<\/a> of the cost of the Red Plan. If they will be paid 20% of the $306 million that’s one thing. If its 20% (or more) on top of that $306 million that’s quite another.<\/p>\n

Maybe we should ask the ailing Chrysler<\/a> what they think of JCI’s business practices for a clue as the the answer to this question.<\/p>\n

Let’s hope no one asks Judy to do the math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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