A possible reenactment of the former City Manager overseeing the bidding and construction processes for the Olympic Village.
As per usual, Allen Garr hits it out of the park with his analysis of the KPMG report release in today’s Vancouver Courier.
Garr notes that the ones who were publicly calling for the report to be released have suddenly changed their tune:
“Now the report is out and even a casual reading would tell you that neither the city nor Millennium, the project’s developer, were doing very well in terms of oversight and meeting deadlines.
So the folks who were suggesting the report would exonerate their political buddies (the NPA), are now conveniently ignoring the report and writing off any criticism as “spin.”
He also speaks about how badly managed the bidding process and the subsequent schedule for completion was by the previous NPA administration and the former City Manager:
“…a second key point in the KPMG report: “Detailed financial information was not included in the submissions from the three developers and, accordingly, there was a limited basis to assess financial ability.”
Stunning.
Equally amazing is that, as recently as last December, there were no firm completion schedules and no communications process between the developers, their contractors and the City of Vancouver.
We have no idea what, if any contingency plan the NPA or the now-departed city manager Judy Rogers and her staff would have implemented.”
A project worth over a $1 billion, and they didn’t allow for the ability to properly check out the financial capability of the bidders. They also exercised a wall of silence between all the parties, apparently believing that things would generically get done on time and on budget.
Stunning is right.
