Anytime I see a warning or notice on the city website I get curious about a cover-up (I really do). The other day the city was warning that folks near Veterans Parkway were under a boil order. The city reported it as an accident with a contractor. I was waiting for one of my city hall moles to call me for the other side of the story. I got that call tonight. According to them there was quite the kerfuffle at public works about how this all came down. It seems the ‘accident’ was partially the contractor’s fault and partially the city’s. According to my source who was getting their information from another city employee (so it’s a bit fuzzy) they said the contractor called the city asking permission to open a valve. The city granted the permission but the contractor opened the wrong valve (maybe?). So partially the city’s fault, partially the contractor’s. No harm. No foul.
Well it didn’t end there. So someone at public works apparently didn’t want any blame on the city and blamed the whole incident on the contractor, so NOW the contractor is facing a ‘unresponsive contractor’ label, which means they won’t be able to bid on RFP’s anymore.
Like I said, 2nd hand info, from a grunt, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it were true, because, you know, the city engineers NEVER F’k Up a city project 🙁
Bunker Ramp
Unity Bridge
Admin building
Midco
Denty, and much more . . .
City employee too lazy to go to site to open the valve as needed by the contractor?