Quincy Fire obtained a picture of the doors in question and asks Mr. Rein, "whats the problem?"
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Door Stopper
The Quincy City Council on Monday awarded a $25,708 contract to Doors-N-More for 17 new doors, frames and locks at the wastewater treatment facility. The action was taken despite the objections of Alderman Mike Rein, R-5, who said the cost “seems excessive to me.”
Quincy Fire obtained a picture of the doors in question and asks Mr. Rein, "whats the problem?"
Quincy Fire obtained a picture of the doors in question and asks Mr. Rein, "whats the problem?"
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I am too CLOSE to this one but I would say your both wrong .
Think Water , clorine gas , and metal ..........
Also think that once again The Dept called "purchasing" made no spec nor did anything really of value .
I do not know what the "winning bid" entails , but I do know what the other bid required .
Like about 20 days of man power writing a spec , doing site visits , and reading the fricking life saftey codes .........
You know ...........
Should have been rejected, specs sent out, rebid, and done again.
Hats off to Rein for standing up here.
Every door in the building failed at the same time?
Please tookie.
Tookie,
I am not sure about you but I am sure Hemings at Doors N More are Catholic. Ask youself....who runs this town? ooops, forgot an "i"...should be ruIns not runs.
An important aspect of the facilities design process is the development of good competitive bid specifications or a well-defined request for proposal. In all cases, the facilities design team should not expect to develop the bid requirements without assistance from the business manager and an outside consultant. From a legal standpoint it is critical that bid specifications that allow all bidders to be judged on equal terms be developed. In general, bid specifications have two important aspects. The first is to ensure that they address the specific equipment, materials, or services required, including warranties, training to be provided, and other considerations. The second is to determine that the bidder is capable and qualified to provide the equipment, material, or services requested.
Fuckin Catholics, always out beggin for money for their schools then vote down referendum after referendum.
Bastards.
7:09
Catholic Church people make the best doors, everyone knows that.
It does sound a bit high but the Heming boys are not cheap anyway. I don't know if they had to pay their guys prevailing wage.If they did that'll double your labor cost right there. Not sure why Mikey from the Glass Doctor didn't get a bid on this one. Now if it is a prevailing wage job, guess who will be doing the labor.....the Heming boys themselves. They wouldn't want to let their guys make that kind of money. Rumor has it they have cut back on the number of actual employees they have on the labor side and have opted for sub contractors, similar to Home Depot and Lowes window installers.
Actually it's cheap . Many of the doors and frames need to be either fiber glass or stainless steel , because of environmental errosion .
The labor ......... well go into that old beast .
It would be nice to have specs to bid off , because one bid could be pre hung hollow birch doors and the other to code .
But alas why would Purchasing to the work ?
8:28
Ask the C's how to run a school system, they seem to do better than your idiot Dickerson. Without tax money.
Big 172 can't even do a half-assed job. Thank the C's for taking half the load off 172. Try harder to accomplish a softened-up task.
I guess if the School Board would shoot straight and not try to gloss over the issues that bother the tax payer.
Address the issues 1) Payroll
Why does Leahy make more than the Governor of Illinois.
2) Their budget goes up every year, yes the rate does not change but the valuation of properties does.
3) don't send teachers to Hawaii for training.
I could go on and on but I guess I will just have to go to a school board meeting and help these people understand and show them how to sell this to the peeps
01:21:00 PM
I agree with some of what you are saying as well as what 8:07 is saying, however; 1:21......how do a lot of the catholic kids get to school? 172 buses! "Without tax money" your words. Last I knew those 172 buses are funded by tax payers. The "C's" as you are calling them are riding the tax payer's buses until they can drive their high-end, status symbol, cars to QAND High School.
Are they "without tax money" or not?
8:27
You make a good point, You are just doing so against your own arguement. The C's as you call them pay the same amount of taxes yet only use the buses.
If QND closed tommorrow, the Quincy public school district would be in a bigger financial mess than it allready is.
I am simply pointing out the fact that 1:21 says "without tax money" and that is not true.
If QAND did close QPS would no doubt be in worse shape financially. There would also be 450+ students that think they are better than everyone else going to QHS. Hope that doesn't happen!
7:08
I agrre, I wrote 121, and forgot about the buses.
10:05 makes a good point too, in general, where would 172 be with out the C's and L's, the Christian school, and the home schoolers helping out? The board needs to do a better job w/ money, it would earn more trust.
Dickerson seems to be in "cloud kuckoo land" when discussing why the ref went down, doesn't he! The Regionasl Sup did a much better job looking at the isues. Dickerson just doesn't seem to be in reality.
I believe the school district gets its funding on a per student basis, so if all of the private schools closed the school district would actually have more money.
Yes, they say they would have to spend more, but it would probably be a wash.
Interesting
The head of the local firefighters union says two lieutenants dismissed last week and an assistant chief suspended for 30 days without pay and demoted will appeal those decisions to an arbitrator.
The collective bargaining agreement between the city and the union states that firefighters can appeal either to a judge in circuit court or to an arbitrator. The court process is open to the public, but the arbitration hearing would be closed.
On the school buses deal. I am not positive but I think that parochial schools have to pay to use the buses. I mean, I think they actually write a check to 172.
Check out the rap sheets on Mr. Christ and Mr. Warner, who were arrested for the burlaries that have been committed recently in town. Christ has a shit sheet a mile and a half long, prior DOC stints, revoked probation, etc, etc. Hey DA's office, lock these guys up and slam the door hard, obvious these guys don't learn. Good job task force for picking them up, & also QPD!
Did you think they wouldn't appeal? I don't know what is interesting about the obvious. Lots more money to be spent before we find out that the city was not in the right as to how this was handled.
For all of you that bitch about QPD. How about you all give them credit when they do what you ask.
From WGEM.COM
Quincy Burglaries Arrests
Two men suspected of committing more than 20 burglaries in the gem city are behind bars.
Police arrested Bobby Warner and Brian Christ, both of Quincy at Warner's South 9th Street home.
Officers had received a warrant to search the home on suspicion of drug sales.
While they were there they found dozens of items reported stolen in the recent wave of break-ins.
Sgt. John Summers, QPD Investigative Section said, "This was a result of aggressive initiative on the patrol officers' part. They suspected there was some drugs being sold out of this residence, were able to obtain a search warrant and get in the place. Sometimes you get lucky."
Police are continuing their investigation of the recent burglaries.
Officials are looking into how many of the thefts Warner and Christ committed.
John B the DA's garage got broke into , that is why the trees were shook .
Except that the police were there looking for drugs--they just happened to stumble across the stolen items.
Good job QPD!! Thank you for taking one more drug dealer off the streets and solving the thefts that have been happening.
Yes, those evil drug dealers! Get them off the streets before they force more innocent people to buy their drugs!
Fire,
An idea whose time has come. See today's Post in the Basin. I think it would be fun. Lemme know.
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