Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Shoveling BOTH Snow and bovine byproduct this week!

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Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Shoveling BOTH Snow and bovine byproduct this week!

Quincy is looking at a snow event tomorrow, the last official day of winter.

Expectations as to how much snow, however, have been in flux.

The forecast has been steadily creeping upward from one to two inches of snow to as much as five inches of snow in some locations.

Update: Storm rain/snow line edged north of Boston.

This City ride jobs taxpayers …
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

In turn, as well as needless to say, Quincy Quarry is prepared to roll out its maximum available level of coverage for what is likely to be the last snow job of the season in and around Quincy’s City Hall.

Speaking of City Hall, the Koch Machine’s latest scheme is to build a new City Hall on top of a proposed new building that is slated to mostly become a home for Quincy College.

So what, apparently, for the fact that the college has been losing money hand over fist for years and thus tens of millions in the red Quincy College.

Adrift at Quincy College …
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Granted, Mayor Koch has talked up how the college would be paying rent for spaced used in the proposed building; however, the college was unable to cover its $2.4 million obligation to pay for its buy-in into the city’s healthcare benefits plan for the current fiscal year.

Additionally, per Quincy Quarry’s review of the FY2019 outside audit of the city’s books, it would further appear that the college had not covered various other obligations and one can thus only assume perhaps others yet in the meanwhile. 

Even so, as well as amazingly, the usually supine to essentially all Koch Maladministration funding requests City Council actually pushed back against the mayor’s ask for $23 million for property acquisition and planning purposes to commence this latest folly.

Coming soon to the Q?
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In turn, one can only assume a counterattack by the Koch Machine of the City Council to press it to agree to a fix for Mayor Koch’s latest “Edifice Complex” jonesing.

That and so surely but coincidentally also providing him with a fifteen-story penthouse office view of Houghs Neck and points north.

And speaking of points north, the City Council also pushed back with concerns about the all-inclusive projected cost of over $150 million to build a new Quincy Police Department headquarters, albeit more about proposed thousand dollar microwave ovens than the far greater costs of a first time ever indoor police shooting range and copper roofing.

Quincy Police Cruiser going up in flames at police headquarters
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Granted, a new facility is long overdue, but a hundred and fifty large is a breathtakingly large sum, not to mention before the only to expected cost overruns on projects when no outside entity is riding herd on project management such as is the case when a new school is built.

For example, the closer to but a remodeling of Quincy’s Old City Hall than a proper historical renovation was originally proposed to run only $6.5 million, only to then be bumped to $8 million but then ending up running $12.7 million, and thus a near 60% or almost a doubling, depending on which cost projection one cares to use as the original baseline cost projection.

Old City Hall went up in flames
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

That and however improbably, this massive cost overrun is said to have not entailed any additional costs related to the no one was ever charged in the surely arson-caused fire which burned old City Hall in the middle of its remodeling.

But what the hey, it’s only money. 

Taxpayers’ money.

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