They're kidding, right?
Today's Greenwich Time headline announces that the town will now more closely monitor the spending on the Hamilton Avenue School project. This after spending $31 million on an unfinished project that's over-budget and way, way overdue? Now they're going to watch how our money's spent? I'm no financial wizard but prudence suggests that the time for monitoring this project should have started before the contractor was selected and certainly should have continued while the dollars were flying out the window. I think we need someone watching the watchers.
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This is utterly absurd. The reason for this total absurdity is the fact that our town affords zero accountability for anyone. None. What are we going to do, vote out the School Board? The BET? The Building Committee? Nobody pays for their mistakes, nobody is called into any real kind of account and our tax dollars fly away. This is our fault as residents, because we all buy into the idea that Greenwich will always be able to buy excellence and that will smooth over everything. Nonsense. Its time to start making real structural changes in this town, and soon
Who knows whether they are getting the real story, but, from what I hear, a significant chunk of overruns were instigated by town employees. So accountability would not be terribly elusive.
One thing that never gets mentioned re Hamilton Avenue, though, is that the initial budget was unrealistically low. So defining "overruns" is problematic.
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