Dear Editor,
I am not sure what to make out of this article from March 21 regarding the tenant improvement approval for Eagle Builders. No one would award a contract to a company which is $226,000 higher in price.
It seems to me negotiations are not known anymore. It is just taxpayer money, why bother? We citizens don’t know anything anyway. It also appears to me now if this new learning centre would have been tendered correctly, the cost for the shell would have been probably 25 per cent less than what it is now, but that is just peanuts for our town.
I urge the council and the CAO to amend bylaw 380-17 as per recommendation from the judge in Wetaskiwin and I know since this only is a recommendation council, as well as the CAO, see no need to change anything. But it needs to be changed because first, the bylaw is completely wrong and amending it would reflect how much spending is now available in this town, and I know when it is done correctly there will be a big surprise visible.
But it doesn’t get changed because the mayor and the CAO know exactly why they don’t want to change it, but the truth will come out, maybe in 2021 when we have a new mayor and a new CAO.
Edwin Geuder
Editor’s note: This letter was edited to clarify the price difference.