Now not just for the select elect of the Emperor, the Vitetta Report is available at the district website.
Oddly enough...it reads pretty much like the 2005 report.
You can view the whole group of reports here.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
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I'm seeing $4 million for MR Reiter, $2.6 million for Grandview. That's $6.6 million for the elementary schools alone.
How much renovation $$$ is left from the Nostradamus, er Hellmann & Co., giveback in Jan. 2008, before they had any inkling of the renovations or costs required? $4 million, right?
Last time I checked, 6.6 is greater than 4. I think I see why Hellmann & Co. wants to can MR Reiter. In Jan. 2008, he & his allies created the conditions for the foregone conclusion. Justifying a major decision with faulty intelligence. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
I'm not seeing a Vitetta report for the Middle-High School yet. I'm assuming it's cost estimate will be greater than $0. If it's greater than $1.4 million, even if MRR gets canned, we don't have enough $$$ to do both GV & MSHS.
And I'm not even a CPA!
Unless there's total overlap with the Vitetta stuff, don't forget another almost $0.3 million to implement the any-day-now lighbulb study recommendations at the MSHS.
Where's the $$$ gonna come from?
Here's an idea --> do the studies right, get REAL estimates of how much it'll REALLY cost to REALLY renovate the school(s) PROPERLY, and then obtain the necessary funds at rock bottom interest rates that we may not see again.......
until greedy overzealous financial institutions run amok again after this pendulum swing towards more regulatory oversight fades into memory and the next overzealous free-market bonanza collapses and the Fed needs to thaw-out frozen liquidity with rock bottom interest rates the likes of which we may not see again until.......
Also, anyone know the full IRS scoop on spending that remaining $4 million?
Is it something like 85% of it (~$3.4 million) has to be spent by Nov. 2009, or the jack-booted IRS thugs come a knockin'? I think this is a contributor to the Hellmannite haste.
And what does "spent" mean? Contracts awarded to winning bidders, or something else?
Those numbers can't be right. They are too similar to Bink's estimates for renovation, and we all know Bink's numbers were wrong.
Or were they?
M.R.REITER
Bink $4.6M
Vitetta $4.0M
GRANDVIEW
Bink $2.3M
Vitetta $2.6M
SUBTOTAL
Bink $6.9M
Vitetta $6.6M
M/SHS
Bink $14.7M
Vitetta ?????
What is old is new again...
Yet ANOTHER report that tells us what we already know, that just about everything has far exceeded its useful life. This one's #4. I'm already looking forward to what #5 says in another four years.
I thought the Sharon Hughes/QSRE "we're just making architects rich" was just another one of those regrettable remarks in the Morrisville pantheon of regrettable remarks, but I guess it's true.
We're gonna have to make Vitetta a bit richer, because they still haven't done the studies necessary to estimate renovation costs to put elementary kids into MSHS, or to put more elementary kids into Grandview, if MRR is a goner, which seems to be exactly what it is.
Will those studies be ready by the January 14th Public Hearing to close MRR? Nope.
It is funny -- in an embarrassing kind of way -- that some things in the Vitetta "passed it [sic] expected
service life by more than 30 years and should be replaced."
THIRTY YEARS! That is more than the expected service life itself!!!
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