Anonymous
Post 03/17/2016 10:54     Subject: Re:Murch- Getting screwed again?
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Anonymous wrote:Well- does anyone know if the Mayor's budget ended up giving more funding to Murch?


The Mayor's budget won't be released until March 24.



But it has to go to the printer now, so someone knows.


By how much did Bowser win the Murch precinct in the last election?

There's your answer on how much extra she has in her budget for the school.


Bowser won the primary by winning WOTP. Then she won the general by winning EOTP. She may need WOTP again in the next election.


VERY good point.
Anonymous
Post 03/17/2016 09:32     Subject: Murch- Getting screwed again?
Anonymous wrote:The Mayor couldn't respond the budget...too busy at SXSW spending $350,000.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-mayor-bowser-defends-spending-at-sxsw-to-attract-tech-companies/2015/03/13/c93f3b52-c996-11e4-b2a1-bed1aaea2816_story.html


And in rewarding her contributors through her initiative to give windfalls to crony developers, I mean shelter the homeless.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2016 12:27     Subject: Murch- Getting screwed again?
The Mayor couldn't respond the budget...too busy at SXSW spending $350,000.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-mayor-bowser-defends-spending-at-sxsw-to-attract-tech-companies/2015/03/13/c93f3b52-c996-11e4-b2a1-bed1aaea2816_story.html
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 22:08     Subject: Re:Murch- Getting screwed again?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Well- does anyone know if the Mayor's budget ended up giving more funding to Murch?


The Mayor's budget won't be released until March 24.



But it has to go to the printer now, so someone knows.


By how much did Bowser win the Murch precinct in the last election?

There's your answer on how much extra she has in her budget for the school.


Bowser won the primary by winning WOTP. Then she won the general by winning EOTP. She may need WOTP again in the next election.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 19:50     Subject: Re:Murch- Getting screwed again?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Well- does anyone know if the Mayor's budget ended up giving more funding to Murch?


The Mayor's budget won't be released until March 24.



But it has to go to the printer now, so someone knows.[/quote

By how much did Bowser win the Murch precinct in the last election?

There's your answer on how much extra she has in her budget for the school.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 16:08     Subject: Re:Murch- Getting screwed again?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Well- does anyone know if the Mayor's budget ended up giving more funding to Murch?


The Mayor's budget won't be released until March 24.



But it has to go to the printer now, so someone knows.


Yeah, that decision must have been made. Along with all the other modernizations. Radio silence from the mayor's office.

I wonder how much more money is going to Duke Ellington. Maybe we can hit $300M?
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 16:04     Subject: Re:Murch- Getting screwed again?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Well- does anyone know if the Mayor's budget ended up giving more funding to Murch?


The Mayor's budget won't be released until March 24.



But it has to go to the printer now, so someone knows.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 14:17     Subject: Re:Murch- Getting screwed again?
Anonymous wrote:Well- does anyone know if the Mayor's budget ended up giving more funding to Murch?


The Mayor's budget won't be released until March 24.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 14:14     Subject: Re:Murch- Getting screwed again?
Well- does anyone know if the Mayor's budget ended up giving more funding to Murch?
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 14:03     Subject: Murch- Getting screwed again?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can you point us to your source?


I am not the PP, but will say that representatives from the auditor's office have begun attending SIT meetings at Murch. We were told that the office is finalizing plans for their next audit report and would like to include Murch. That is all there is to share right now. If people want more information, they should contact the Office of the DC Auditor.


Thank you.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 13:54     Subject: Re:Murch- Getting screwed again?
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Anonymous wrote:It was announced yesterday that Murch has been officially included as one of three schools in the DC Auditor's FY 2016 school modernization audit.


What does that mean?


It's a follow on to the report released last year - supposed to be a deeper dive into some of the projects (Ellington was a focus on the first one). Here's an article from the City Paper in January on Patterson and her thoughts about the school modernization project.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/looselips/2016/01/07/shock-and-audit-kathy-patterson-brings-muscle-to-d-c-auditors-office/


OK, but what does that mean for the renovation as it happens?


Probably nothing. Remember what the auditor found for Ellington and it's proceeding apace.


Meaning that nothing will change for Ellington because of the school's special, uh, status. Overruns have baLoomed Ellington's cost to $200 million and yet DC continues to write blank checks for it. But DCPS will choose to make an example of Murch if they find amy contracting issues with the Murch project.


I think it's more that the auditor doesn't have any enforcement power - same as GAO w/r/t Congress.

They can tell you what happened but no one can make it get fixed.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 13:30     Subject: Re:Murch- Getting screwed again?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It was announced yesterday that Murch has been officially included as one of three schools in the DC Auditor's FY 2016 school modernization audit.


What does that mean?


It's a follow on to the report released last year - supposed to be a deeper dive into some of the projects (Ellington was a focus on the first one). Here's an article from the City Paper in January on Patterson and her thoughts about the school modernization project.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/looselips/2016/01/07/shock-and-audit-kathy-patterson-brings-muscle-to-d-c-auditors-office/


OK, but what does that mean for the renovation as it happens?


Probably nothing. Remember what the auditor found for Ellington and it's proceeding apace.


Meaning that nothing will change for Ellington because of the school's special, uh, status. Overruns have baLoomed Ellington's cost to $200 million and yet DC continues to write blank checks for it. But DCPS will choose to make an example of Murch if they find amy contracting issues with the Murch project.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 13:25     Subject: Murch- Getting screwed again?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can you point us to your source?


I am not the PP, but will say that representatives from the auditor's office have begun attending SIT meetings at Murch. We were told that the office is finalizing plans for their next audit report and would like to include Murch. That is all there is to share right now. If people want more information, they should contact the Office of the DC Auditor.


Is there a sense that any of this could help pressure the builders to make the original plan happen?
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 13:24     Subject: Murch- Getting screwed again?
Anonymous wrote:Can you point us to your source?


I am not the PP, but will say that representatives from the auditor's office have begun attending SIT meetings at Murch. We were told that the office is finalizing plans for their next audit report and would like to include Murch. That is all there is to share right now. If people want more information, they should contact the Office of the DC Auditor.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2016 11:20     Subject: Murch- Getting screwed again?
Can you point us to your source?