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UPDATE III: POSTED REPORT: Siding Report Presser – 2:30 PM TODAY (1/5/18) @ Events Center

l3wis January 5, 2018 2Comments

UPDATE III: This explains why the Mayor needed to do his presser today;

On Monday, the citizens of Sioux Falls should get some clarity on the possible political future of Mayor Mike Huether.

“Yeah, I would love to be the governor of South Dakota,” he told KSFY’s Brian Allen back in December 2016. “I’d love to be the President of the United States. I’d love to represent South Dakota as their senator or representative.”

Huether’s mayoral term ends this spring.

The mayor and his wife will announce what a city spokesperson calls their “next steps.” It will take place Monday at 11 a.m. at City Hall.

Not sure if he is running for higher office or not. I’m starting to think he will sit it out for a couple of years OR run for Governor. But if he was running for Governor I don’t think he would announce at City Hall.

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Copy of the Final Report: siding-report

I gave it a quick read. While it seems the siding itself is keeping water out, there seems to be an issue around the windows that ‘needs to be monitored’.

The biggest reveal in the report is how badly the siding was fastened to the building and that over time due to weather the siding will have to replaced in areas because of buckling. They also said that the siding should have been ‘pre-curved’ before putting on the building.

YAH THINK!!!!?

While I am happy there is no water coming in thru the siding, there are many flaws with the siding that we knew about already, and many we did not. While the best thing to do would to be replace it all, it’s still going to be costly keeping up with the maintenance since it was so badly installed. But else would you expect from Mayor Secret, Secret, Secret, RAMROD?

UPDATE II: After the press conference, you are left with more questions. Obviously we are going to have to wait until the vendor comes on Jan 16 during a CC informational to get more questions answered. Like I said above, the vendor said in the report that we should not have installed the flat siding. During the presser, Joe Sneve, asked who authorized this type of installation and the Mayor refused to answer. MMM kept trying to make it about the sold out concerts at the EC. Stehly also hammered them about the secrecy of the report itself. It was also evident the other councilors boycotted the event in protest to the way the presser was announced. The mayor told a reporter who asked about it, “I don’t think my council leadership would boycott this event or use that kind of language.” A little over 4 months left of the mayor’s fantasy world.

I don’t have much more information except that the Mayor’s office called the press conference about an hour ago.

This is interesting for many reasons, because NO one from city council has seen the final report or the draft report. Remember, this report was commissioned by the city council to help rebuild trust over the siding settlement fiasco, yet the administration is handling all the edits and letting the mayor’s office to see the report first and present it.

IT IS NOT HIS REPORT! IT IS THE COUNCIL’S REPORT!

If I was on city council I would be pissed and would be putting a boot up his rear end. Not sure why city councilors are so scared of a Lying Bully Coward.

Siding Report to come this week?

l3wis January 3, 2018 3Comments

Looks like there was a delay;

An independent firm, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., conducted their field observations of the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center siding on December 12 and 13, 2017, and is working to complete the building enclosure report. The City of Sioux Falls has asked Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. to complete the report this week if possible. The City also requested the completed report be sent simultaneously to Purchasing Manager Scott Rust and City Clerk Tom Greco.

I’m glad to see the city council will get the report at the same time as the administration, but I am wondering if Public Works has already seen a DRAFT report and that is why there may have been a delay? As we all know consultants, especially ones that work for our city, many times, give a draft report for review and recommendations. It’s goes to my point that when the city pays some consultant for a report, they sometimes want a specific result(s). Not saying this is happening here, but it HAS happened in the past on water rate reports (recommended increases) and the indoor pool study (recommended Spellerberg park).

Mayor Mike Huether and Director of Public Works Mark Cotter will host a news conference to formally announce the results as soon as possible after receipt of the building enclosure report. City Council Leadership will also be invited to participate in the news conference.

Council should not be ‘invited’ they should be having their own press conference about this, as I have said, this is THEIR report, not the administrations.

In October 2017, the City of Sioux Falls issued a request for proposals for an independent review of the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center’s IMETCO CF-12 exterior metal wall panel system for functionality and structural soundness. In addition to a review of the exterior metal wall panel system, the consultant also reviewed the air and moisture barrier system behind the metal wall panel system. Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., a Chicago-based company with extensive knowledge and experience in building enclosure systems, was chosen to complete the review.

It will be interesting to read this report and it’s findings.

Siding Review – Business as Usual

l3wis December 27, 2017 4Comments

I heard last night that the consultant reviewing the siding did the review on December 12-13. They will turn that report over this week to Mark Cotter, the director of Public Works. As I understand it, Cotter and the administration will review the report and make a condensed presentation of it to present to the city council at a future informational meeting.

This is Bullsh*t for many reasons.

The mayor and his minions involved with the multiple lies about the siding settlement should not be able to see this report first.

The city council should have seen the report first, the public second and the mayor last.

It only makes sense to give the report to the city council first, they are the ones that requested it and budgeted for it mostly due to the bad decisions and lies from the administration and his management team. The last thing they needed was the mayor’s blessing. It’s like letting the bad student see his report card before his parents do.

If this is truly the case, prepare yourself to see a very condensed and watered down report from Cotter and the Mayor.

UPDATE: Is Mayor Huether and his Public Works Director sitting on siding report?

l3wis December 22, 2017 1Comments

UPDATE: I have been told by a city official that the report won’t show up until next week.

I reached out to Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, the company in charge of doing the events center siding report. I asked them if the study was complete and if so if the city received it yet. I also asked for a copy of the report. I have not gotten a response to any of my questions.

My assumption is that study would be complete by now. Since it was due on December 29, I think it is safe to say that they would not have been reviewing the siding the week before Christmas and finalizing a written report that last week of the year. This of course is just an assumption.

I do know that at least one city councilor requested to see the report at the same time as public works and mayor’s office, but never really got a confirmation on that.

I’m speculating the city (mayor’s office) is combing through it secretely and privately to maximize damage control if something in the report turns out to be bad.

We can truly call 2017 in Sioux Falls, ‘The Year of Extreme Secrecy’.