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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its money.  They are price gouging the county as they know the county will pay.  County should fire them at this point.[/quote]

No.  There were cost overruns that were not the contractors fault.  The contractors agreed to complete the job for no profit, but the government would not pay for the cost overruns.  It isn't the contractors fault that the NIMBYs lawsuit caused major delays and cost overruns.  The government should have paid for the overrun costs that came from litigating the lawsuit and not tried to make the contractor take the hit.  Montgomery County needs to pay for the cost overruns since it was the county residents who fought the project.  Their tax dollars should be paying for the cost overruns and not trying to make the contractor bear the cost of the residents' legal obstruction of the project.  The lawsuit, environmental delays raised by the NIMBYs, failure to acquire land rights, changes in design due to the above problems all cause cost overruns, none of which are the responsibility of the contractors and all solely the responsibility of the government.  Looks like the NIMBYs may have gotten their way and killed the project by making it too expensive to complete.  They're only going to hurt their own county because the county is going to have to pay back the federal money invested if they don't complete the project.  Typical elitist privilege. [/quote]

:roll: [/quote]

I don’t know if PP’s rendition is accurate or not, but what’s the point of posting an eye roll?  If you think something is wrong, say what it is and why.[/quote]

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