Not completing the audit because the contractor refuses to release payroll records is not right! Think their costs were excessive? Someone made and obscene amount of money at the expense of the citizens. The job of council is to find out why and how this happened. How can you have half an audit? MWH needs to turn over these records. What are they hiding? I know; huge profits and price fixing. Prove me wrong, please. History should not repeat itself. Knowledge is the key. We need a city manager that can control the overcharging our citizens. Look at the $110 million building turned down by the citizens. It was well known and talked about by commercial builders in town that they could build that building for $45 million. How did it get to a vote? Why did the city let it get that far? If we the public get it, why don’t the people running our government get it? Council needs to think with common sense. They need to put people in place that watch the spending and bills.
Cape Coral utilities expansion shouldn’t be that hard. We need answers. I have stated for years that the amount of money charged for utilities is ridiculous. You don’t have to be an accountant. THINK about it; Dig a trench 80’ long in front of a standard Cape Coral lot. Bury three pipes. Hook them to the neighbor and pay a portion of the pumping station. How on earth can that possibly cost $26,000 to a home owner? It just doesn’t add up.
Look at Lee County over paying for the newly acquired land in Lehigh by 2/3. OUCH! It’s our tax money. How does this happen. Fix it! Hazel McCallion (Mayor) of that wonderful city in Ontario, Mississauga. She has run her very large city for over 30 years in the black with reserves. Check her out on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY79KbCptTo. Go to Canada and take her too lunch, dinner or whatever it takes to learn and get ideas for our beautiful city to be a better more fiscally responsible Cape Coral.