Atrium Mall and Office Equipment are in dire need of new sidewalks and have again come to the City of Havre to see about using our local CTEP funds to complete the project. Mr. Shaw said at Monday night’s council meeting that they couldn’t afford to replace their sidewalks unless they received substantial funding from the City for the $128, 765 project. Mr. Shaw was only in favor of paying the 13.42% CTEP match money or about $17,280. While we would all agree that the work needs to be done there are those of use that do not favor the use of our local tax funds to finance improvements to privately owned property. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Edmonds did in fact purchase their real property at a discounted price because of the poor condition of the buildings and sidewalks. Why should tax dollars then be used to inflate the value of a privately held real estate investment? The CTEP funds are best used for projects that will benefit all CityTaxpayers instead of a couple of local business people.
To add insult to this request Edmonds and Shaw were both parties to an earlier blog story where they hired the out of town Gallagher Paving to re-pave their parking lots. Yes, the same Gallagher that was reported by the Better Business Bureau fraud division to have duped their clients with poor workmanship and materials. If they refuse to support local businesses with their purchases why should the local taxpayers rush to approve the use of tax dollars meant to enhance the City for everyone?
The council meets Thursday, October 27th at 5:30 to discuss this matter. Call your council person and tell them to vote NO on this CTEP request.
Only hire local! Sounds like Havre is running a communist regime?
ReplyDeleteSounds to me that if you play with fire you get burned and by the way it looks like gallaghers done a great job on the atrium.
ReplyDeleteI have seen a lot of work done by gallagher paving and I will say this it looks really good and time will tell . Every one is jumping on the band wagon but my opinion gallagher's paving is the next best thing that happen to havre since rock solid was born. I hope they put a hot plant up in havre. Good luck gallgher's and don't back down we like you guys.
ReplyDeleteMy wonder is bid rigging with the city of havre illegal or is it? And if I had proof is it worth it? And maybe we do need out of town company's to help out and then havre would be the real place to be. You never heard this much when bill baltrush was banging his assistant or his partner was running drugs up and down the highline. Lol
ReplyDeleteWhy wasn't this in the paper? You'd think something this big would make the local paper, what's going on down there!
ReplyDeleteIf there is any proof of bid rigging send us the info and we will work dilegently to blow the whistle.
ReplyDeleteI will say however, that those of us at the Havre Daily Corrector are at least smart enough to recognize multiple posts with different names as all coming from Gallagher people. Do a Google search of Gallagher Paving, don't just take our word for it.
I wonder why the Havre Daily Corrector hides whom is posting the information and has no other contact information other than the blog?
ReplyDeleteYou mean like you just did Anonymous? I beieve the corrector posted an e-mail address in one of these stories. Personally I am not finding not knowing the actual name of the person a problem but I sure don't repeat anything I read here as "fact" without calling a few people to check the accuracy first. You can post with a name too , even if you do make one up
ReplyDeleteI have kept my eye on gallagher and and seems to me that all the parking lots and drive ways looks very nice so I think the stuff about gallager is bs.
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