Quincy Public Buildings Department slow making its new headquarters ready for occupancy

— News about Quincy from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

De rigueur municipal property fountain, right; construction worker buttcrack, left center.
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Quincy Public Buildings Department slow at making its new headquarters ready for occupancy.

Four years wicked slow as a matter of fact.

That and likely over budget, if not way over budget as per the Koch Maladministration’s profligate usual.

To grift a development project elsewhere in Quincy as a part of a three-way wherein only local taxpayers end up screwed, the City of Quincy bought a once-grand century-old house at 74 Greenleaf Street in Quincy Center in 2017 in an out of character move to save it from a wrecking ball and then repurpose it as a transitional home for office space for the Public Buildings Department in a more usual Koch Maladministration koched-up move.

Soon to be former home of the Hysterical Society
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That and so all but assuredly eventually make it available to the Quincy Hysterical Society after it is evicted from the Adams Academy Building on Adams Street when the society’s sweetheart grift of a fifty-year lease expires sometime next year.

Further note that when the City of Quincy sought approval from the City Council to buy the building four years ago, the Public Buildings Department Commissioner told the Quincy City Council that the a bit over $100,000.00 concurrently sought to renovate the building and so buy yet another property by the Koch Maladministration would both be sufficient as well as that the building would be made ready shortly.

Snippy Quincy Public Building Commissioner
An old City of Quincy headshot, a very old picture

More recently, however, when asked about why the Public Buildings Department offices had not be relocated to the Greenleaf Street property, the Public Buildings Department Commissioner snippily told the City Council that a number (well over a dozen, ed.) of (expensive custom, ed.) replacement windows had been recently installed as well as that he is waiting for a private painting contractor to inspect the building and then present a bid to repaint the building.

Normally, bids for work by outside vendors are put out for competitive bid; however, this time apparently nothing is too good for the expected eventual benefit of the Hysterical Society as it would otherwise relatively soon be facing homelessness.

At the same time, the Public Buildings Commissioner did not offer even a mere glint of a hint when his department might be moving into the Greenleaf Street building.

Water everywhere but no sign of local tax relief
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Also hysterical is the Koch Maladministration’s ongoing – if not also incessant – fetish for incorporating water fountains into various of the favorite recent projects of Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch.

While not currently in the DMS-5, Quincy Quarry New’s mental health experts would view this fetish as a problematic amalgam of an Edifice Complex, a Napoleon Complex, and the incessant handwashing aspects of OCD for an unholy as well as an unwell trifecta.

Quincy’s self-proclaimed peerless mayor …
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In turn, Quarry’s experts have submitted for consideration for inclusion in the DSM-6 update their suggested diagnostic criteria for what they are proposing be named the Koch Complex.

Unfortunately, and as is well-known to mental health practitioners, this sort of personality disorder is all but untreatable.

That and thus much to detriment of long suffering local taxpayers who all but invariably end up stuck with covering the koched-up bills.

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