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Remember the "change orders" that came through while this facility was already under construction and out of nowhere came these custom made brackets specially designed to support the SURPLUS equipment, (Fire Trucks and an Ambulance) cut up and then installed in a room upstairs whereas another change order had to be done in order to redesign the structure upstairs to support such equipment?
OK, now go back to the first picture above and take a good hard look at the thousands upon thousands of dollars YOU invested into these Custom Made Brackets!
They're I Beams with a 2x6 on top of them! These are your custom made brackets Ladies & Gentlemen! The equipment you also see in this room had to be installed with a Crane, again, at your expense. This is a Training Room. Yeah, right. I'd say, (since it was an after thought and not in their original plans) since they had all this extra money floating around, WHY NOT!
Nevertheless, YOU spent thousands upon thousands of dollars on those Custom Made Brackets and "I" wanted you to see where YOUR money was so well spent.
17 comments:
for all that money they could have at least painted the I beams and stained the 2x6s!
How much were the change orders? Where can I get copies of the change orders? Whats the acual cost of this beams verses what we were charged?
UNBELIEVABLE!
I'm speechless.
SBY does think we're stupid, and they seem to be right! How many of these idiotic projects, and bad decisions can one group of "leaders" make? If the voters and taxpayers continue to affirm these people as we have before, then this would give new dimension to "HOW DUMB ARE WE"?
Joe,
What was the amount in the change order? The "custom made brackets" is simply the description that was used to describe the 6 I beam and 6 pieces of pressure treated 2" X 6" in the change order.
Sand Box John
The only thing custom about those beams is they were cut. Nothing custom about cutting a piece of steel, it is done daily at every steel company around here.
Good question anon 10:34!
Who is getting rich off of all this looting and plundering of the taxpayer?
Barrie :
STOP SPENDING MY DAMN TAX DOLLARS!!!
Are they bolted to the floor? If holes were drilled it is considered fabrication however, I wouldn't go so far as to call it custom. If that's the case every seamstress that sews a button on a piece of cloth could call her work custom.
Those are not I beams they are wide flange beams, not that it matters. The difference in cost is nil.
This is just another big misunderstanding. They were never called "custom bracket" they were "Brackets Cost'em"
For training purposes shoudln't the front half of the fire truck be connected to the back half???
I wouldn't call that a fabricated bracket. More like a lazy man's way to jerry rig something and in a $10,000,000 building, I'm sorry but that shouldn't even be acceptable.
It merely points out how much poor planning was involved. I would be willing to bet that the "I" beams were made from surplus material left over from the construction and now the tax payers are paying for them twice.
Maybe they are just temporary until the custom ones arrive. If not, they look pretty crappy !!!
What a total embarassment to the taxpayers, a ten million dollor piece of sh*t. I'm not empressed!!
I have seen alot of training centers in my military and volunteer career as an emergency responder and this looks more like a childs playground than a training center. What kind of emergencys are they training for where they only have access to one side of the trucks equipment. The layout was very poorly planned.
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