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August 29th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I wouldn’t take this off the plate, as it is a case study in the utter failure of management. If this is representative of the way the City was being managed, there are probably other instances of waste that just never surfaced. Hopefully, current public projects in the City are being managed more effectively.
Imagine, the questionable “value engineering” effort resulted in higher costs and a delayed opening, along with the additional cost consequences of that!
August 29th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I can’t wait to read it (have to do it at work, I have dial up at home)
From what I’ve read in the Sun so far it seems that the Sun(Campanini)somehow figures Cox is exonorated because he didn’t know there was a problem?
The CEO of the city not knowing what’s going on with a major project apparently is fine and is not an indictment of mismanagement and abuse, at least according to the Sun.
I will no doubt have more after I read it.
August 29th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
It still leaves unanswered the question of who violated the trust of the people of Lowell and talked to the Sun. I still want to know who that person or persons was!
August 30th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Having heard about the project manager through another city project - It is entirely possible that Cox did not know what Souza was up to. Souza made some fast moves during the library remodeling as well. To the point thaty the asistant project manager quit. Some how or the other he “missed” ordering the tops of the bookcases ( the very things that help stabiliza them,) in order to cut costs.