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The Quincy City Council meeting last night was subjected to a worse display of tap dancing than at a tap dancing recital for preschoolers.
Way worse.
The reason for the inept dancing?
The City Council had called for the City of Quincy’s Public Buildings Department to provide an update on various (often long-ongoing, ed.) building projects, including project cost accountings, and last night’s meeting was the night for the so-called briefing.
Instead, the briefing was a dog and pony show with the dog a mutt and the pony lame.
Mr Snippy
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After mostly instead but posting before and after slides along with a narrative more befitting of a bad vacation home slide show, the Public Building Department Commissioner yet again got snippy when he was only fairly pressed on projects running late and/or over to way over budget as per the surely at least all but invariable usual for koched-up Koch Maladministration edifice complexes as well as the fact that these projects have been on his watch as commissioner.
How snippy?Â
Very snippy even for Mr. Snippy.
For example, Mr. Snippy was especially snippy over how a modest and once said to be but barely six figure renovation of hundred year manse on Greenleaf Street that was supposed to be wrapped up within weeks five years ago.
Future home of the Hysterical Society? Note de rigueur water fountain, right foreground.
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Mr. Snippy also yet again asserted that this project would be wrapped up shortly, not that anyone in the room truly believed him.
Further problematic is how the Greenleaf Street project was also said five years ago to be an expedited need as the building was needed to provide office space for the Public Building Department as one of its two city buildings was deserving of condemnation.
Needless to say, not only is the said to be needed building still a work in process, if not also a piece of work, Mr, Snippy also failed to offer up any project cost accounting data as he had been specifically asked to provide. Â
Fire hazard behind Quincy High School
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Further, he has apparently done nothing of consequence as regards dealing with the decrepit eyesore of a firetrap adjacent o Quincy High School that his department is still using for office space.
Snippy further went on to claim not ever discussing the ever-increasingly obvious likelihood that the Greenleaf building is probably already slated to instead become the future home of the Quincy Hysterical Society.
Rationales for the likelihood for the long rumored move include that while Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch continues to seek to include the Adams Academy building, the current rented location of the Quincy Hysterical Society, within his improbable plans for at least a couple hundred million cocktail napkin of a plan for an Adams Presidential Library, his plan is looking even more shaky.
In fact, likely wicked shaky.
Is the City of Quincy looking at grand theft land?
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The reasons for the shakes include the following.
For starters, Mayor Koch was recently hit with yet another adverse court ruling by yet another judge over his adverse eminent domain taking of the Adams Academy away from Woodward School’s schoolgirls.
And for another, it would further as well as so far clearly appear that Mayor Koch has no viable claim whatsoever on the Adams book collection currently held at and conserved by the Boston Public Library, books which Mayor Koch has said would be the basis for his proposed presidential library.
Local tax dollars continue to go up in smoke! …
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Additionally, as for other City of Quincy building projects, Mr. Snippy continued to be snippy when pressed on how all manner of other projects under his so-called control are continuing to at least run late and probably also over-budget as per the long ongoing history of such City of Quincy projects during the inept reign of the Koch Maladministration.
Particularly amusing was the fact that no actual cost data or hard completions date projections were provided were tells.
Huge tells.
FYI: not my fault
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In any event as well as all but needless to say, COVID-related issues such as supply chain shortages were frequently posed as reasons for the delays and cost overruns, including for projects that were supposed to be completed before COVID hit the fan just short of three years ago.
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Just curious — has there been even one project undertaken (get the funeral humor there?) by the Lord Mayor’s gang that’s come in at (or under) budget and that was completed on time — nevermind early? It would also be interesting to have a clear answer about how many projects are languishing — essentially abandoned — due to incompetence of the hacks who are supposed to be in charge, and/or that monies have been overextended for other boondoggles.
Asterick,
Thanks for asking! Quincy Quarry personnel have long followed things germane to your ask.
While data are hard to find, the fact that the Koch Maladministration has to the Quarry’s observation never touted even but one of its major projects (say, those running mid-7 figures or higher) coming in on time AND on budget is a telling de facto confirmation that both finishing when originally promised AND staying within budget has never happened.