Martin Sweeney and John Marshall High School

Submitted by lmcshane on Sun, 09/30/2012 - 09:03.

 

What will it take for the Greater Cleveland Partnership to realize and not endorse the status quo in Northeast Ohio?  Making a dime off of taxpayers has to stop. 

Martin Sweeney rigged the vote so that sweetheart DEMOLITION ($1,972,508.07 for demolition) and construction contracts ( $45,262,087.83 for construction) at John Marshall would get the green light.   

Peto controls construction trade unions. It's not rocket science. Council folks go along with the scheme and with promoting the school levy, because Sweeney controls the purse strings for their campaign fund.....(thanks Councilman Brian Cummins for the glossy  107 mailer that went right into the recycle bin...)

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Bribes at City Hall??

Submitted by lmcshane on Sun, 10/07/2012 - 10:09.

Does any one really think that Sabra Scott Pierce engineered her relationship to Michael Forlani WITHOUT council leadership????  REALLY???

 (And Phyllis Cleveland was not pressured into voting for John Marshall High School demo contracts, either??!)

Bribes at City Hall?? Unheard of right???
 

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How is her son doing any way?  After being shot by police...

The suspect was ordered to raise his hands and complied. The officers started to interrogate him.

Sgt. Morris says that's when he lowered his hand towards his waist and an officer shot him in the stomach.

Scott is the son of ex-councilwoman Sabra Pierce Scott and current City Street Commissioner Randell Scott.

  See Michael Forlani: Doan Pyramid Electric One of the region’s largest electrical contractors; subject of federal search warrants and subpoenas related to multiple County contracts; MetroHealth contracts; CMHA contracts, Parma School contracts, Maple Hts. School Board contracts, federal contracts and others. As of 2009, Doan Pyramid had $60 million in contracts with 23 regional school districts, according to the company’s attorney. Filings by federal prosecutors identify Doan Pyramid as a company that provided gifts to MetroHealth construction executive; company won @ $14 million in contract work at MetroHealth. Investigators focus on company ties to J. K. Kelley, Jimmy Dimora, Frank Russo, board members of Port Authority and officials at various County departments, CMHA and suburban school district boards.

http://files.meetup.com/1597384/CRACC%20Who%27s%20Who%20in%20the%20Count...

Waste and more $$$-Save John Marshall

Submitted by lmcshane on Wed, 10/17/2012 - 07:32.

  FBI, please move faster on Martin Sweeney and spare Satinder the agony of a hunger strike to protest this crime in progress.

See today's letter to editor by resident Larry Morley:

 

I have been a Cleveland resident for more than 20 years, and after reading your Oct. 9 front-page articles on the school levy -- one a column by Mark Naymik, the other a story by Patrick O'Donnell and Rich Exner -- I am appalled.

I recently went to a meeting where former mayoral and Cuyahoga County Council candidate Kimberly Brown was a speaker, and what I found out was shocking. It seems there are 613 school districts in Ohio, and the Cleveland system gets more money per student than any other district -- to the tune of more than $15,000 per student. The graduation rate is less than 63 percent.

In addition to that, I live close to West 140th Street, and there is nothing wrong with John Marshall High School. Yet it is being torn down, wasting taxpayers' money. Not long ago, the district put a new roof on Marshall, at considerable expense.

There are also two other new schools on West 140th.

Waste, waste and more waste. And they want more money.

Larry Morley, Cleveland

The Numbers Racket-John Marshall

Submitted by lmcshane on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 01:13.
 
Dear Ms. McShane,
 
In general, the state pays for 68% of the project costs. However, the state does not co-fund certain features, such as auditoriums and stadiums, and does not co-fund certain enhancements beyond standards specified in the Ohio School Design Manual. Those "extras" are paid for solely by the District and are known as Locally Funded Initiative (LFI) expenses.
For the Marshall High project, as of the first of September, the LFI estimate was $511,289. The total estimate was  $45,262,087.83. Therefore the state tab would be 68% of $44,750,795, which equals $30,430,540. The District would pay the remainder, which is $14,831,548.
As I noted to you previously, these estimates are still preliminary and undoubtedly will change.
 
The same rules apply to demolition/abatement. The cost estimate as of the first of September was $1,957,508.07. Of that, the LFI estimate was $103,508.07. Therefore, the state is to pay for 68% of $1,854,000, which is $1,260,720. The District would pay the remainder, which is $696,788.
 
If we can be of further assistance, please let us know.
 
Jim
 
James G. Darr, administrator
Bond Accountability Commission 2, Inc.
 
 
 
John Marshall


Latest cost projection, as of Oct 1, 2012: $45,262,087.83 for construction; plus $1,972,508.07 for demolition.
 
Funding sources: Issue 14 bond proceeds and interest and Ohio matching funds. No grants known to us.
 
Contracts awarded: demolition, Evans Landscaping Inc., 6/29/2012, $1,839,000, plus $118,518 in change orders as of 9/5/2012...........Architect, CEDA/Then Design, projected cost as of 9/5/2012 $2,714,174.76................Construction Manager: Ozanne, Hammon, Gilbane, Regency (OHGR), projected cost as of 9/5/2012 $1,727,253.00 (but see note below).

 

No "hard cost" contracts have been awarded. As far as "soft costs" other than design and CM go, preliminary soil/environmental analysis contract may have been awarded, but I do not have records handy on who was hired, projected cost as of 9/5/2012 $46,686.
 
Note regarding cost estimates and contracting:
District and Ohio School Facilities Commission (now part of Ohio Facilities Construction Commission) have elected to pursue a construction-delivery method for Marshall known as Construction Manager at Risk. This method, which differs from the traditional multi-prime design-bid-build delivery, is permitted under Ohio Construction Reform legislation approved in 2011.
This will require renegotiatian of the Segment 5 CM contract with OHGR, which wws prohibited from bidding for the CMR contract for Marshall and any other Segment 5 high schools that are switched to the CMR method. Under this hybrid CMR scenario, OHGR will likely serve as an owner's agent and CMSD/OSFC will contract with a CMR that will essentially be a general contractor which will hire all subcontractors and deliver the project for a so-called Guaranteed Maximum Price.
The current cost estimate is OHGR's Design Document-phase estimate. "Value engineering" (cost-reduction) discussions are ongoing. A more-exact estimate traditionally comes in the next, Construction Document, phase. However, that process will be complicated in this case by the transition to the CMR method. It is my understanding that the CMR proposal will play a role in the CD-phase cost-projection to come.
 
Please see the attached "Marshall.CMR RFQ" and the BAC report "New Construction Options."

 
If we can be of further assistance, please let us know.
 
Jim
 
James G. Darr, administrator
Bond Accountability Commission 2 Inc.
440-781-8654

Dimora and Russo advice..bid low..change order...

Submitted by lmcshane on Sun, 10/07/2012 - 20:31.

 

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/landmark/agenda/2012/01122012/John%...

City of Cleveland prepared these numbers to justify the demo of John Marshall High School.  See now how Bond Accountability
Commission's numbers for a demo and and reconstruction now EXCEED the cost for a renovation prepared the consultant to the City of Cleveland Cleveland Education Design Alliance .

 

 

Latest cost projection, as of Oct 1, 2012: $45,262,087.83 for construction; plus $1,972,508.07 for demolition.

 

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Dear Ms. McShane,
 
John Marshall


 Latest cost projection, as of Oct 1, 2012: $45,262,087.83 for construction; plus $1,972,508.07 for demolition.
 
Funding sources: Issue 14 bond proceeds and interest and Ohio matching funds. No grants known to us.
 
Contracts awarded: demolition, Evans Landscaping Inc., 6/29/2012, $1,839,000, plus $118,518 in change orders as of 9/5/2012...........Architect, CEDA/Then Design, projected cost as of 9/5/2012 $2,714,174.76................Construction Manager: Ozanne, Hammon, Gilbane, Regency (OHGR), projected cost as of 9/5/2012 $1,727,253.00 (but see note below).

 

No "hard cost" contracts have been awarded. As far as "soft costs" other than design and CM go, preliminary soil/environmental analysis contract may have been awarded, but I do not have records handy on who was hired, projected cost as of 9/5/2012 $46,686.
 
Note regarding cost estimates and contracting:
District and Ohio School Facilities Commission (now part of Ohio Facilities Construction Commission) have elected to pursue a construction-delivery method for Marshall known as Construction Manager at Risk. This method, which differs from the traditional multi-prime design-bid-build delivery, is permitted under Ohio Construction Reform legislation approved in 2011.
This will require renegotiatian of the Segment 5 CM contract with OHGR, which wws prohibited from bidding for the CMR contract for Marshall and any other Segment 5 high schools that are switched to the CMR method. Under this hybrid CMR scenario, OHGR will likely serve as an owner's agent and CMSD/OSFC will contract with a CMR that will essentially be a general contractor which will hire all subcontractors and deliver the project for a so-called Guaranteed Maximum Price.
The current cost estimate is OHGR's Design Document-phase estimate. "Value engineering" (cost-reduction) discussions are ongoing. A more-exact estimate traditionally comes in the next, Construction Document, phase. However, that process will be complicated in this case by the transition to the CMR method. It is my understanding that the CMR proposal will play a role in the CD-phase cost-projection to come.
 
Please see the attached "Marshall.CMR RFQ" and the BAC report "New Construction Options."

 
If we can be of further assistance, please let us know.
 
Jim
 
James G. Darr, administrator
Bond Accountability Commission 2 Inc.
440-781-8654

 

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James Pelikan Citizen Watchdog on Issue 107

Submitted by lmcshane on Sun, 11/04/2012 - 10:34.

http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2012/11/cleveland_plan_is_unproven_let...

The plan continues the failed assumptions that brought us mayoral control, by proposing yet another authority to even further reduce the role of residents and parents and the means of public accountability in matters of public policy and organization.