A Very Late Start For The Board of Public Works

The bimonthly meetings of Board of Public Works in the Governor’s Reception Room at the State House often get started late — 15, 20 or 25 minutes behind schedule is not unusual.

But in what appeared to be a last minute move that surprised many of those attending, Wednesday’s meeting of the board that approves all major state contracts got started four hours after the originally scheduled 10 a.m.

Once they got started the board took just 20 minutes to approve the 73 items on its 167-page agenda worth over $42 million. Not a record time, but much shorter than the usual one- or two-hour meeting.
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