{"id":5848,"date":"2014-03-12T15:31:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T19:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2014-03-12T15:31:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T19:31:44","slug":"joint-ops-costs-are-out-of-control-says-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/joint-ops-costs-are-out-of-control-says-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Ops costs are \u201cout of control\u201d, says Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Re: Aurora signs off on next phase of $26M Joint Ops Centre)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago at the invitation of the Town to the citizens, I attended an open house at the Works Department facility at 9 Scanlon Court where there was a presentation and information provided regarding the building of the new Joint Operations Centre.<br \/>\nAt this event, it was clearly presented that the estimated construction budget was $19.8M and I received an information pamphlet indicating exactly that figure, plus $4M for land purchase.<br \/>\nIf memory serves me correctly, the $19.8M figure is an increase of some $5M, up from the original estimated budget of $14.8M. And it has always been my understanding that the original cost estimate of $14.8M was a total estimate of building and land costs.<br \/>\nIn The Auroran of March 6, I now read that this facility will now cost $26M. This amounts to a $6.2M difference, which I assume is for the land purchase.<br \/>\nBut if the land purchase cost as indicated in their information pamphlet is $4M, what is the increase of some $2.2M for?   I would appreciate a little clarification on this point as I\u2019m sure other Aurora taxpayers might. It would appear to me that perhaps costs are out of control.<\/p>\n<p><strong>William Rogers<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>(Editor\u2019s Note: In the video presentation, the balance was attributed to engineering costs to address topographical issues on the new site)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: Aurora signs off on next phase of $26M Joint Ops Centre) A few weeks ago at the invitation of the Town to the citizens, I attended an open house at the Works Department facility at 9 Scanlon Court where there was a presentation and information provided regarding the building of the new Joint Operations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}