Council to get clearer picture of overruns

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“It’s glaringly obvious that there was an elephant in the room,” stated Councillor Cori Ramsay. “There was no transparency. This shouldn’t have happened and it should never happen again! No one person should be approving $7 million. It’s absurd! The person I’d like to question doesn’t work for the City anymore.”

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Some, but not all, of the cost overruns, are as follows:

*$1.52 million: design changes

*$2.3 million: dewatering 250,000 gallons per day for six months

*$2.9 million: US tariffs on steel and labour market

*$694,510: parkade surface waterproofing membrane

*$255,891: mechanical tender results

*$395,429: electrical tender results

There were a total of a dozen overruns over $100,000 approved under the designated authority bylaw. That bylaw has been recently changed to force Council’s notification when a project exceeds five percent of its budget to a maximum of $100,000.

It was Councillor Skakun who put forward a motion to have a more thorough look at the project, setting out exactly what labour costs were, how much City staff time was dedicated to the project and at what cost.

While Council was the first to admit, nothing can be done now that the project is substantially complete, but maybe it will help to ensure something like this doesn’t happen again.