DISPUTE COSTS CITY $5 MILLION POLICE HEADQUARTERS PROJECT $2.3 MILLION OVER BUDGET.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer GLENDALE - The city will spend $5 million to settle disputed construction costs for police headquarters, whose builder was fired and later sued the city for $20 million. The settlement with Pasadena-based Ray Wilson Ray Wilson can refer to:
``Considering that if we continue with the litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. we'll be incurring in·cur tr.v. in·curred, in·cur·ring, in·curs 1. To acquire or come into (something usually undesirable); sustain: incurred substantial losses during the stock market crash. 2. an incredible amount of litigation costs and attorney fees and expert fees and all of that - considering all of that I think this is a good outcome,'' Mayor Rafi Manoukian Rafi Manoukian is a former member of the city council in Glendale, California. He was recently notified that he has been selected by the Board of Directors and the Selection Committee of the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO) as a recipient of the 2006 Ellis Island said Wednesday. The city will pay Ray Wilson $6.2 million, much of which will be disbursed among subcontractors who were not paid for their work. City officials said Glendale's net loss is about $5 million because the city will get back $1.2 million from the construction management firm and members of the architecture and design team for design and management problems. The original amount budgeted for police headquarters was $63.6 million and with the settlement the city spent $65.9 million, officials said. The City Council approved construction of police headquarters in June 2000. The building at Broadway and Isabel Street was supposed to open in June 2002. In January 2004, the city took over the project from Ray Wilson. Construction was not finished until six months later. Because of the delay, the city is paying less in the settlement than it otherwise could have been forced to pay, said Bob McFall, assistant city manager. The settlement was announced Tuesday evening at the City Council meeting. As part of the settlement, the city agreed that it did not have just cause to remove Ray Wilson as the builder, said Tim Pierce Pierce may refer to: Places
``The Ray Wilson contention and the basis for its claims was that the design was poorly done and that the handling of how to correct the poor design was also not handled well, and it's hard to build something when you really don't have a good design,'' said Pierce. In all, Ray Wilson was paid nearly $32.2 million before the settlement. The city spent another $5.5 million to finish the building and $23.3 million on other project costs, including land acquisition and architectural design This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. . The disputed costs included Ray Wilson's billing for replacing drywall that got wet in rain and turned moldy moldy animal feed overgrown with fungus; the feed may be harvested and stored or be still in the ground. moldy corn disease see leukoencephalomalacia, fusariummoniliforme. , city officials said. Among the thousands of other work items the city did not want to pay for were the re-working of ducts and other work that had to be redone re·done v. Past participle of redo. . ``That's a project coordination (problem); that's not the city's responsibility,'' McFall said. Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com |
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