{"id":1848,"date":"2009-03-20T22:24:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T03:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2012-01-11T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T15:31:06","slug":"ralph-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1848","title":{"rendered":"Ralph is wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ralph blasted me in this weekend’s Budgeteer by saying that JCI will not earn 18% on the Red Plan. Take a look at this graph which JCI gave the District in December of 2006 to explain how it would charge for project management. It shows a theoretical one million dollar project. The sample shows it earning $188,000 of the total costs. That’s 18.8 percent!<\/p>\n

The letter is to the District’s Director of Facilities, Kerry Leider and begins:<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Leider:<\/p>\n

In response to your request, I am writing to provide you with an example of how Johnson Controls’ professional service fees would be applied to a project. Two examples are shown. the only difference is the project delivery method: general contracting versus construction management. The example is a renovation project, where the mechanical contracting work comprises at least 60% of the total project construction costs.<\/p>\n

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The letter is one of the affidavits in our taxpayer case against JCI and the School District. You can see the whole letter here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ralph blasted me in this weekend’s Budgeteer by saying that JCI will not earn 18% on the Red Plan. Take a look at this…<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5241,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/5241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}