$290,000 Westglades project illustrates problems at School Board
Is everyone in Broward County government corrupt? What a rip-off and someone should land in jail over this.
$290,000 Westglades project illustrates problems at School Board
Like a speeding train, apparently it’s hard to stop a Broward school construction project once it’s in motion.
Consider Westglades Middle School in Parkland. In November 2007, the School Board voted to seek proposals to design and build a 24-classroom addition. A selection committee recommended the work go to Pavarini Construction Co., a national firm with an office in Fort Lauderdale.
But by fall 2008, the economy was tanking, the county’s population had dropped and the school district’s enrollment plunged, leaving it with 14,000 vacant middle school seats.
Of those, 359 were “down the street from Westglades at Coral Springs Middle,” then-district construction chief Michael Garretson learned from project manager Scott Hennigar. Garretson informed School Board member Stephanie Kraft, in an Oct. 14, 2008, e-mail and warned, “we need to be certain that these … additions are really needed.”
Had the school system slammed on the brakes at that point, taxpayers would not have paid more than $290,000 for half-done blueprints for a new school wing that will not be built anytime soon, if ever.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fl-westglades-addition-0311-20100317,0,4203450.story
