I am an engineer and engineers write contracts that fix the materials BEFORE construction starts. Only liberal elites write blank-check contracts like Turtle Bay did. Of course, since they are using taxpayers money, they care less how much it costs. They want the best that tax money can buy.
I am a project engineer who has created processes so valuable that such ass-covering bureaucracy was more expensive than it was worth, projects that have paid their cost in three months. The cost of lost opportunity for profits not earned while paying for drawings, meetings, and exective approval loops was greater than the $740K cost of the project.
Only liberal elites write blank-check contracts like Turtle Bay did.
Apparently you've never heard of time-to market cost.
Of course, since they are using taxpayers money, they care less how much it costs. They want the best that tax money can buy.
One more time idiot, I don't approve of using State or Federal funds for such projects. If the citizens of Redding want to spend the money because they will get a return, they are entitled to take that risk and fire their leadership if it turns out to be a turkey. Given that they spent only $4 million dollars, the investment of $7 million in one local hotel will more than pay off that investment.
A 45% payback the first year (it's more now that I've noted the contribution of the McConnell Foundation) of a $7 million investment against a $16 million total public investment is a very good return. A 175% payback of $7 million in subsequent local private investment on a LOCAL public investment of $4 million the first year is unheard of. A Find me another local public works project with that kind of payback. A plain bridge would not have done it.