An independent audit finds fault with KC's Capital Improvements Management Office and their dealings with the KCPD. And there's also the question of a "discrepancy" over $886,000.
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ReplyDeleteI was so infuriated about this whole thing I posted it to the wrong place.
ReplyDeleteShall we talk about allocating overhead expenditures for a couple of minutes?
Let me see...overhead expenditures are costs not directly related to a capital project but do pay for support the project in an indirect manner. Like,the expensive CIMO digs, all the flavorings they have for their coffee, the large color photographs on 18 showing projects, which I happen to know cost a small fortune, the catered lunches, which at one point were coming in daily, paying former city employees to work on contract to oversee that things went smoothly, all the while supervising current city employees and making their lives a living hell. Let us not forget the consultants, who obviously were above leaving the building to go eat lunch (hey, more billable hours) and were especially good at looking down on hard working city employees, who could have done all this work, if they too, had millions infused into their budgets.
CIMO got out hundreds of projects stalled in other departments. The PD probably wouldn't even have their academy for several more years if not for CIMO. Yes, there is overhead. They need vehicles, computers (which, by the way staff shares printers; some departments have a printer at every desk), paper, pencils, and their portion of City Hall expenses (HVAC, etc.). Those on contract can go - including former city employees, and one or two who were rehired after they retired. CIMO should have its own operating account like most of the other departments, then engineers and project managers would not have to be accountants while trying to deliver their projects.
ReplyDeleteGood lord if I have to hear about the poor put upon city workers one more goddamned time...
ReplyDeleteWhat these idiots don't like to talk about is the huge mess they made that required consultants coming in and cleaning up the mess. Ask the firefighters at the former firestation 19 how they like their new firestation in Westport. Then ask them how long they were waiting for Public Works or whatever other dept. responsible for fixing or replacing that nasty station?
As for making city employees lives a living hell, yeah I guess expecting them to earn their paycheck and actually WORK a fucking forty hour week was just too too much to ask. If anyone believes that giving city workers more money will improve their productivity is smoking some mighty fine chemical substances.
well as a former retired city employee we all sign a statement that we wouldnt work for the city for 5 years. what did the city manager find a way to hire ex retired employees at the same pay as they were getting. no wonder the city is in finance trouble when you got a city manager doing whatever he wants without explaining why
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