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Day after city's bid opening for recreation center, relief and a few questions
The rec center has no high resale value. Just as school buildings are sold on the cheap!
Does Chad dare to tell us about closed schools in Lawrence and how much they cost to build with additions and then the final scrap value?
May 18, 2013 at 5:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Simons' Saturday Column: How does KU rank in customer satisfaction?
I cannot figure out why Mr. Dolph Simons does not get out in public and become inquiring.
All Dolph has to do is pay a $1.00 an hour to park at the KU garage. Go to the Kansas Union for starters and sit in the lobby and visit with a few folks. Then head down to the Union food service level, get in line and buy some of the food, go to some tables and ask to sit with someone and visit, talk about things.
Mr. Simons, no one would even know who you are and you could learn a lot!\
If that is asking too much, my offer to meet you at your house and we both walk to your office downtown. You can have an employee drive you back home.
You will learn a lot about Lawrence, the broken sidewalks to get downtown, the trashed up Mass Street , we can even stop at the Dairy Queen on the way and you can again visit with various customers there. They will not know who you are, what a better way to get the answers you are seeking.
Get away from that old Remington Rand typewriter and get out in the real world.
wilbur guarantees you will be enlighted.
May 18, 2013 at 2:41 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Editorial: Bidding debacle
When all of the parties involved are parked in a nursing home one day, they will be long forgotten!
May 17, 2013 at 11:40 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Editorial: Bidding debacle
No one complained when DST from Kcmo got a100,000 tax abatement on personal property and the dudes went back to Kcmo with their Monet and DST helped to revitalize downtown Kcmo, not Lawrence.
No one complained when the school board paid way too much for Dairy Barn, yet to another local family.
Nothing ever came from the convoluted sale of the Elks Club.
No one complained when the school district bought land next to Dad Wrry Park and sold it on the cheap! Cheap!
LarryNative, you are wrong, Fritzel claimed he is giving back to the community. That qualifies as philanthropy!
May 17, 2013 at 3:56 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Day after city's bid opening for recreation center, relief and a few questions
Chad cannot run for city commission. He doesn't live in Lawrence. Why?
Now then, the estimate was high so when the bid came in we would "feel good".
There is a bit of larceny in everyone!. In this case, it isn't disquised very well.
quote for the day from "wilbur"
May 16, 2013 at 9:45 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Editorial: Gun law costly
The city has plenty of money and the county as well. Just look at the county. They gave away $5,000 to the Castle Tea Room for marketing and advertising? That is a sham at best. Wheover is running place cannot generate their own $5,000? Sounds like Libby Kriz's foundation is about tapped out!.
May 16, 2013 at 9:43 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Bid for recreation center comes in about $10 million lower than expected; questions grow over other cost estimates
Everyone has a bit of larceny in them. In this case, those involved aren't sharp enough to disquise it.
:) wilbur quote for the day!
May 16, 2013 at 9:38 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Bid for recreation center comes in about $10 million lower than expected; questions grow over other cost estimates
It's just child's play, the millions are all relative whether 30 years ago or now.
And folks think Amyx is soooooo great!
The five commissioners are in this together. Just as past commissions have been.
And to think, the city manager is a lawyer. The contracts mst be correct!:)
May 16, 2013 at 1:52 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Bid for recreation center comes in about $10 million lower than expected; questions grow over other cost estimates
No one organized against EastvHills!
No one organized when Free State got built and sewers roads extended and the developers showed up. No one complained when the jail got built andPrairievPark neighborhood sucked up to the sewers and roads!
How many complained years ago when John Emick got the ditch behind his house filed and knocked the house down and now there is a medical building at 6th and Maine.
Wilbur ain't no Lunatic!
May 15, 2013 at 11:50 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Bid for recreation center comes in about $10 million lower than expected; questions grow over other cost estimates
How is Fritzel's connection with the city any different than that of the County Commission when they purchased the farm where East Hills Business Park is in 1985 for $750,000.
Ms. Miller sold the property and the taxpayers of Douglas County paid for it and the city of lawrence, aka also known as taxpayers put a bunch of money into developing it for a "not for profit" group aka Public Private Partnership. We know who the public is, but to date some 25 years later the Private partners are not known, nor is who has profited from that business park.
The taxpayers have not as the buildings on the tax rolls have not lowered anyone's property taxes.
Now then, lots are selling I am told for $70,000 an acre in the park. So given that number the 300 acres could have at minimum a current value of 21 million dollars ????
So who is screwing the douglas county taxpayers, the city taxpayers? The Journal World will not touch the details of the not for profit group and it's entities and/or their profits.
So this backdoor politics stuff has gone on for a minimum of 25 years and even before that.
The difference some years ago, the players were a bit more astute in their dealings. Don't think for a minute that Constant Construction and BA Green didn't have a free ride in Lawrence.
Fritzel is the new boy on the block and the public is screwed no matter how one looks at it.
What would be interesting to know is how much information was shared that then caused the Fritzel bid to come in lower.
These guys, including the city commission think the public is DUMB.
May 15, 2013 at 10:04 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )