During Monday nights meeting there was a lot to be said about the City allowing a Contractor to back out of a contract because the cost of materials went up. The question brought to their attention was, do these same Contractors lower their prices when the cost goes down? Louise Smith gave her patented answer, "We'll get back to you on that one. I have to wonder if that will really happen though because John Pick and Lore' Chambers did not attend the meeting. Don't wait at the mailbox looking for your answer George!
Isn't that why they call it a "contract"?...a document which obligates the parties to perform for compensation, which is all spelled out in the CONTRACT.
ReplyDeleteNot a new concept to the rest of the free world, apparently SBY needs to hire an attorney to explain this arrangement to them.
I hope that they re-bid this instead of just redoing the contract with this same company. It would be criminal if they did not re-bid. But then again, we are talking about the great leaders (in their own mind) of Salisbury!
ReplyDeleteWhen have prices gone down lately ?
ReplyDeleteWhen have prices gone down?????
ReplyDeleteWake up! Contact the Pittsville Fire Department. Their new building was supposed to cost $1,500,000.00 and since they waited, the cost of materials and labor have come way down. Enough to reduce it to $1,000,000.00!
Get your head out of the sand. Only in Salisbury will they screw you every time you turn around.
That shows the quality of people we
ReplyDeletehave running the city , give em hell George . Give em a mud-sucker
for me!
Re: 8:16
ReplyDeleteAll contract proposals if prudently reviewed and submitted will have a materials cost clause in it. Did you stop to think of how much your fuel bill (heating oil, Gasoline, propane) has increased? Do you realize that macadem, blacktop is an oil dirivitive? When a contract is signed and the contractor fufills his obligation he is paid on the agreed contracted price, How much the contractor makes is not your business.