Everyone is scrambling over the costs at the marina, but there seems to be an option that no one has discussed: simply pay the company or companies involved the agreed to amount plus allowances that were in the contract for unforseen expenses.
If the contract was written in such a way that we have no control at all, I would question the purpose of the whole tender procedure and would think that someone in the legal department needs to be held accountable.
Mr. Ruberto seems to think that given time the citizens of Thunder Bay will forget what has happened but that is not true; every time they see their tax bills or try to use some service that had to be cut because of these cost overruns they will remember what this and the previous council did.
The citizens of Thunder Bay might also question the timing of the announcement of this cost overrun only a few scant months after the civic election.
Is it possible that no one saw this coming prior to that? I hate to think what will happen when interest rates start to go up or the first time the council is presented with cost overruns at the new EMS building. More of the same I think.
John Brewer,
Thunder Bay
