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City of Quincy again hammered in court over its false claim that it owns the land under the Adams Academy Building
– News about Quincy covered by Quincy Quarry News
City of Quincy senior officials and its legal team
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Yet again the Koch Maladministration had its head handed back to it on legal notepad.
Given that Quincy Quarry News has all manner of sources in places both high but mostly low, it was dimed with exclusive word that a Norfolk County Superior Court judge has categorically rejected the City’s claim that it owns the land underneath the Adams Academy Building.
The Quincy Hysterical Society has long been a tenant of the building,
The Adams Academy Building
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It has also only paid $100 a month in rent for at least fifty of the past fifty plus years per a lease facilitated by City fathers that shortchanged the Woodward School girls..
The City took the land and the building a year and a half ago by eminent domain from its longtime owner, the Adams Temple and School Fund, and which has for roughly seventy years benefited the Woodward School for Girls.
The City of Quincy then offered only $2.2 million for the Adams Academy Building but nothing for the land.underneath it as it mistakenly claimed that the city already owned the land.
Burn rate of tax dollars by the Koch Maladministration
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Now, however, the City is looking at either having to come up with at least $10 million to buy the land, reimburse the Adams Trust’s legal expenses, and likely also pay interest penalties for committing essentially the equivalent of grand theft land.
Even more worrisome for local taxpayers, a final figure of upwards of $20 million more on top the $9 million already spent is within the realm of possible. In turn, a so resultant more than tripling of the cost would appear to set a new record for a koched-up grandiose plan running over budget.
On a percentage basis anyway.
Generalissimo El Jefe Alcalde Tomás Koch
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Needless to say, this added expense and which Quincy Quarry has long predicted will only add to the cost of Mayor Koch’s variously flawed plans to establish a Presidents Adams museum – or is it a library? – and which Quincy Quarry’s knowledgeable advisors would run roughly a couple hundred million or more to build and properly endow.
In other words, yet another koched-up Edifice Complex.
Now, however, what with the sudden need to raise at least a likely $10 million quickly, any progress on the museum plans should go on hold. Will be, however …
Further, one can only assume that Mayor Koch will yet again file yet another sure to lose appeal of this latest court ruling against his plans even though the Norfolk County Superior Court ruling was pretty much ordained per a remand from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court to the trial court affirming that the City of Quincy did NOT own the land.
In other words, if Mayor Koch opts to file an appeal, such will only add to the final cost for taxpayers as the penalties meter is now running.
Not these clowns yet again …
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Additionally, this is at least the sixth time that the Koch Administration has lost in court over its legal disputes involving the Woodward School.
Finally, as this latest breaking badly bad news© for the Koch Maladministration story has only just come to light, Quincy Quarry’s ever-growing legions of loyal readers can expect more coverage from Quincy Quarry News as things continue to hit the fan on this as well as other matters.
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Great reporting! Surprised to only learn about this now. I thought they had dedicated the new space already. It sounds like this library is being built like a house of cards.
Our clown mayor does not have control of the Adams book collection or even merely but a commitment of ever getting the collection from the Boston Public Library. Koch is thus running the ole bait and switch con – at the expense of taxpayers.
Sounds like Koch’s consiglieri/real estate developer has dropped the ball . . . again.
The Clown is correct; the library is a koched-up fraud at taxpayers’ expense.
I don’t understand why people keep voting for him. The mayor and the Zoning Board of Appeals need to go. Enough is enough.
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