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The Editorial in today's Palm Beach Post was supporting the Commission's vote to give the architect and general contractor three more months to fix the problems at our casino building. And they agree with me. Essentially, they slapped down Vice Mayor Scott Maxwell for his desire to file an immediate lawsuit and for saying that "retailers are getting rained on because of the leaks."
The one error that was stated was that the construction estimate soared to $8 million because the contractor found more damage than expected.
The facts of that matter are: We spent $6 million on the building and we spent an additional $2 million on infrastructure at the entire beach property of 19 acres. Scott Maxwell is always insisting that we pay for infrastructure for developers but takes an exception when we own our property? This infrastructure cost was already set aside in our budget for this beach renovation. And we don't know for sure that the architect cut corners in the design to meet the $6 million contract.
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Maxwell. What a putz.
ReplyDeleteHe's a chronic liar and gets away with it regularly. It's become an involuntary reflex for him. If you call him on it, he bullies you and, of course, lies to the press and they usually believe him.
ReplyDeleteFinally someone at that rag had the bright idea of following up on his outrageous claims and what do you know! He's lying again.
Yes, one of the big problems or costs were for the infrastructure for the bathrooms built at the south end. John Szerdi designed this. They should have renovated the existing locker rooms and bathrooms but oh no, Szerdi had to make big bucks.
ReplyDeletethe ballroom is basically unusable but booked almost a year out. seems like people are always using it. we are at the beach almost every weekend and there seems to always be events there, weddings, parties. for something with major infrastructure defects, it seems to be strangely popular.
ReplyDeleteI think having bathrooms on the south end of the property makes good sense, but with limited funds that money should have been spent on the Casino structure and /or the main bathrooms or locker rooms. The south end was a give away to John Szerdi and his company.
ReplyDeleteKudos to the Post for for exposing one of hamburger boy's multidinous lies. He is such a lying scheming tool bag.
ReplyDeleteguess you losers are still mad he kicked your asses in the last election and he's going to kick your asses again when the braves move into BEAUTIFUL JOHN PRINCE PARK. Maybe he can take you and katie out for pizza to celebrate with his million dollar finders fee.
ReplyDeleteMaybe someday we will have honest government again that isn't conducted in the dark and favors parceled out with free public land in a corrupt quid pro quo. I wouldn't necessarily brag about corrupt government being bought and paid for with the right price tag. Even if you're one of those proud to be buying influence.
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