Friday, July 6, 2012
Augusta, GA
By Lori Davis
The photo above shows the floor of the
Harrison Building, the old brick building shell preserved as an entrance to the
Tee Center. This picture was taken on June 7, 2012 during a Tee Center hardhat
tour by Convention and Visitor's Bureau chief Barry White and Heery
International's Jacques Ware.
Heery is the program manager
for the City of Augusta's hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax funded
building project and Jacques Ware is the Heery project manager over the Tee
Center.
Below is a photo of the Tee
Center Exhibition Hall, the enormous 38,000 square foot open room that is to
house the trade shows and various Tee Center exhibitions.
At the time of the tour, the
CVB folks excitedly made the point that the floor was going to be poured the
next week. This was on June 7.
Interesting.
shows that two whole months
earlier, an incredible 84% of the concrete walls and slabs
were complete!
How can this be? The main
exhibit hall room is a staggeringly large percentage of the total concrete
slabs on the project. How can 84% of the slabs and walls have been complete back
in March when the main floor was still dirt?
Isn't Augusta put at risk,
when subcontractors are paid so far in advance of the work performed? Isn't the
previously noted issue of $1.4 million of kitchen equipment that was paid for a
nonexistent kitchen proof that Heery is just rubber stamping contract payments?
Let me see now. The
commission relies on Fred Russell, who relies on Heery, who apparently sees
construction completed that just isn't there.
Unreliable fits and this
time, it will be set in concrete.......eventually.***
L.D.
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