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Still ongoing Public Buildings Department headquarters behind Quincy High School
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The City of Quincy’s public buildings maintenance department is not duly maintaining its own office buildings.
This latest Quincy Quarry News exposé of the Koch Machine yet again exposés the machine’s failure to deliver the goods after money was dropped into its payment slot was brought to the Quarry’s attention via a dime dropped its way by one of its ever-growing number of local Citizen Journalists.
The crux of this latest hard-hitting Quincy Quarry exposé into the soft underbelly of the Koch Maladministration: the City of Quincy inexplicably has three public building maintenance department office buildings and all three of them are in various states of ill repair.
Examples of the ill-repair of the still in use old Department of Public Buildings buildings at 50 Saville Avenue.
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Facial boards – what facial boards? (left), Dry root (center); Ceiling plaster – what plaster? (right)
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Even more problematic, the City of Quincy is supposed to only have one building maintenance department office building.
Koch and mirrors as usual
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In 2017, yet another all too typically Koched-up plan was announced to buy a rundown old building at 74 Greenleaf Street in Quincy Center with some modest historical significance and so save it from a developer’s wrecking ball.
The plan further proposed using the building as a transitional venue for the offices of the City of Quincy’s Public Buildings Department until such time as more permanent space might be made available elsewhere given much less than even but minimally disclosed future plans for yet another Kochian Edifice Complex project.
The Koch Maladministration also asked for an additional low six-figure appropriation to effect needed repairs to the Greenleaf Street building.
Boarded up doorway (left), boards on the ground (center), and construction material left at 74 Greenleaf Street (right).
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In turn, both tax dollars appropriation asks were subsequently facilitated by the all too often supine City Council.
Unfortunately for Public Buildings, fixing the Saville Avenue potholes is DPW’s responsibility
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However, while years have passed, the building at 74 Greenleaf Sreet has yet to be duly repaired, much less has the building maintenance department moved into it.
That and the now several Public Building Department buildings continue to be in rundown condition, not to mention that the city property at 50 Saville Avenue has yet to sold off as was originally promised to happen to help defray the cost of buying the property at 74 Greenleaf Street.
Granted, the upwards of close to a million dollars of ultimately taxpayers-funded money so unexpectedly hung up in the lurch is but chump change as compared to other foundering Koched-up plans, the sum of all of it is not inconsiderable.
Plus, the total nut of hundreds of millions will have to be covered with even more taxpayers’ money.
Money to burn, money burned – whatever
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Lots of money.
Wicked lots of money.
Quincy Quarry considered reaching out to the Commissioner of Public Buildings and a since childhood bff of the mayor for comment as to why his department buildings are in such poor repair; however, no one on the Quarry staff has any need for bovine byproduct this late in the gardening season.
If a home owner allowed their property to fall into such a state of disrepair, the city would be harassing them about keeping their property maintained.
Oh, and it looks like the potholes on Saville have potholes.
The property at 74 Greenleaf is a big mess, ruining the beauty of the meticulously cared for houses and apartment building grounds on the street. It’s been two years. Finish renovation and landscaping now please. I live on the street and I am embarrassed by the neglect by my city.
Dave,
Actually, it’s a worse disgrace than you think. The so-called renovation of the City of Quincy owned 74 Greenleaf by the City of Quincy Public Buildings Department has been “underway” for five years.
And for work yet to do, it includes replacing the plaster on stripped down to the studs on inside walls and putting down wood flooring or whatever on the floors.
As the building is slated to be used as the headquarters of the Public Buildings Department, one would think that such would provide some motivation, but apparently not.
Fredzo,
There is a free alternative. Urine provides water as well as nitrogen, not to mention comes with a request to water the city’s trees by the City of Quincy provides a compelling defense in court against any charges of public urination.