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Bergen County DPW/PD (Proposed)
wetochwink:
--- Quote ---The $350,000 no-bid contract was awarded to the Maywood firm DMR Architects, which also was hired last year to conduct an $89,000 preliminary study of the proposals. DMR and its officers have been generous contributors to Bergen County Democrats, giving $27,050 since the 2002 campaigns in which Democrats took control of county government. Charles H. Sarlo, the brother of state Sen. Paul Sarlo, D-Wood-Ridge, also is an officer in the firm.
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What's with "no-bid contracts"? How do we know that $350,000 is a fair price of tax payer money?
Is there any concern of a conflict of interest with the state senator's brother?
Editor:
Latest story: Slipper factory could fit as police station site
Editor:
Update (7/13/05): The Freeholders passed the bond ordinance to purchase the Goldberg site. The Freeholders also passed Freeholder Padilla's resolution to get the Fletcher Creamer property appraised.
While the Freeholders indicated that it was probably too late to move the site of Kansas Street Shelter, Freeholder Padilla still holds out some hope.
At the least, it appears that if the Creamer property becomes available, serious thought will be given to consolidating other County properties to that location, like the Probation office currently on River Street.
More to come.
Editor:
Latest story:
New shelter, police HQ approved
Editor:
Latest story: County boondoggle
The article says: "Before the county spends that much money on a questionable project, the public should have a say."
Didn't the public have a say?: Bergen weighing ideas for better police garage
What am I missing?
For anyone who may be curious: "Boondoggle" was a derisive term used by opponents of New Deal federal works projects administered by the FERA, CWA, and WPA. They objected to "make work" projects that seemed to have no other purpose than to put people on the government payroll.
Definition taken from: http://www.ushistoryplace.com/glossary/b.html
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