russell5078084 That is more true, frighteningly enough, than anyone realizes. Have you ever noticed how much Silicone our buildings use? Silicone is sand, and only the finest sand from the ocean, will do. That may be the actual cause of rising sea levels
@@Americansikkunt bro you're delusional. Firstly, that hypothesis would cause sea drop, as you dug out the land under it. Secondly, you can literally watch the arctic and antarctic glaciers melt on satellite imagery. Thirdly, you're wrong about where glass comes from, it doesn't only come from the ocean. Science is real and there is no god. Capitalism is toxic and killing the planet.
All because the other building is not ADA compliant. I'm sorry but not everywhere should be forced to allow access for all. It's a historic building so be it, I would never think of going to a Castle in Europe and expect to roll a wheelchair around...LOL The original reason to build this was BS to begin with.
I've watched a few of Larry's exposes and it's really depressing. I live the other side of the planet and we have the exact same corruption and incompetence as you have there and the bastards responsible keep their jobs and retire with their generous pensions paid for by the taxpayers. It makes me sick. No care, no responsibility and no repercussions yet if I don't cut my lawn correctly I am slammed with a fine and there is no right of appeal. I wish you well people of NM and hope things improve.
Odd how modern governments always seem to fail the individual while overwhelmingly supporting businesses and corporations, but greed in all forms corrupts nearly all people.
And New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson covered up Jeffrey Epstein with Scientologists and Balfour Beatty and retaliated against victims and kept his property under the control of Scientologists and rewarded perpetrators.
No joke bastards. I hate city code enforcment. We had a guy here in utah where his neighbor complained abou this yard. Well that guy burnt the complainers house down and shot and killed the code enforcment officer.
Typical for many States here in the US but especially in New Mexico. Someone has an idea and some político says "yeah, let's fund that!". Money is appropriated without a written proposal, plans or preliminary construction bids or a schedule in place. But New Mexico is unique in its boondoggles and SNAFUs at the State and local levels. Most of the State's revenue comes from oil and gas royalties and taxes. If commodity prices fall, so do revenues. Since the State doesn't build a "rainy-day fund" (nor would I trust it to), hard times come, "the well" runs dry, and there's no revenue. Projects that are started die. New Mexico is a beautiful State; I lived there 28 years and love the place; it's home for us. However, this sort of waste, stupidity and corruption is deeply embedded in its government and will never go away.
New Mexico, amateurs Illinois could have made that a 20-25 million $boondoggle with at least a half dozen ghost payrollers,cost overrun contracts for a "friend" and 3-4 unions fighting over it. You got a roughed in slab and bad plans for $400,000, sounds like a good price for commercial development
There should be a new law for all contracted work where payment is put into escrow until the work is competed. This would protect the contractors from not getting paid and protect the buyer from the contractors running off with the money before the work is completed.
But they didn't use contractors. They used City maintenance works. And it wasn't even in Albuquerque in the first place! Corrales is a villiage north of Albuquerque where the city has no authority to do ANYTHING! ¡Gentes sin avergüenza!
They lied. They said their was no contract and it was done by maintenance worker. Then why are their plumbing and electrical pipes sticking up. Maintenance workers do plumbing and electric?
I'm a year late to this comment but an average Joe can follow plans and do the rough in/slab work it's not tough. Whether it's legal for the average Joe to do the job or not is another story.
that's the problem, you get people who don't know a damn thing about contracting, business, budgeting, or meeting deadlines but yet they're in charge of all these projects and we're the ones who have to pay the burden
BADD1ONE I mean if we have slave labor like they did we could get just about anything done. allot of the great old government buildings you see we're done by slave labor. slavery's terrible, but I'll be damned if shit don't get done when you treat people like pack mules.
Plans and drawings are very expensive, as well as concrete, rebar, plumbing, etc. 400k is high but not crazy especially if it was built with government workers who are union and don't know what they are doing in the first place. lol
For a complete set of phased Architectural, structural, plumbing, mechanical and electrical drawings (I saw the construction documents they showed were for core and shell, only the first phase)? Including MANY coordination meetings with the clients (remember, government is the client)? Verifying code compliance with local, state and federal codes? Compliance with ASHRAE, energy and the NEC codes? Environmental impact studies were also probably required. Was this a state-mandated LEED project? More paperwork, more hours to expense. THEN they paid their own workers (at inflated government wages) to pour the concrete rather than bid it out. Wonder why? People DO NOT understand what is required tor a complete set of construction documents. Figure 10-15% of the TOTAL construction costs just for the PME documents alone.
+Bigrignohio I dunno man. I drew most of my own plans in 2015 for Sacramento County. Did most of the work, too. Hired out the slab to my neighbor. 8 bucks a square foot. 8" thick with rebar grid but only very basic foundation design. I was the guy dealing with the various building departments. Planning, easements, fire, hiring foundation engineer for engineering, ECD for the septic system, building dept, all of the little organizations who wanted money and needed their box checked off of the plans prior to finalizing... It's inflated labor costs. and it IS objectionable. absurd.
Should have spent that money building her a new nose for starters, JeeeZus! It's fair to say she took a knuckle sandwich from her ex, Bap! Bap! Ba-bap!
My city supposedly spends almost 40% of the budget on roads but all I hear is people complaining about bad roads and all I see is terrible roads that cause damage to vehicles
What ticks me off is all the money I spend for vehicle registration and most of it goes to public schools. Then what’s left goes to fix roads in different parts of the state while the ones here are crumbling
We the taxpayers are never asked for input about the worthiness of such projects nor is it presented on a ballot for approval or disapproval. And once more no one is held accountable.
This is almost as good as North Carolina's TAX FUNDED teapot museum in which everything is private and it is NOT open to the public...in fact, it's only open by appointment and invitation only.
I think there was a similar situation in Arizona with the government attempting to build a visitor center. There have been worse situations with government leaders having trouble with keeping the so-called ball balanced. Thank you for your helpful and informative videos!
It's sad that local government entities are supposed to be responsible and aren't. But it's easy to make excuses over misspending funding but not have people that one can point fingers at to be held accountable for their inaction/action over a project that would've brought tourism $$$$ to the area. Unconscionable........
You want to make sure a system is extremely inefficient and broken? Let the government do it. FUCK big government, they are only there for their OWN interests, not the TAX PAYERS! Fight for small government. I still remember a city government planned to spend $50,000 - $100,000 for a couple of steps in a park. A local came and built the steps for just $100
Same thing in Shreveport. About 20 years ago someone in the government decided some old shotgun shacks near downtown needed to be renovated because they were a century old. They were basically 2 room, 700 square feet each pier and beam construction. They were in poor shape and owned by people who rented them out. The neighborhood was a ghetto (still is). Anyway the feds jumped in with money and I forget the numbers, but when you took the programs cost and divided it by the number of houses, it came out to be around $120,000 each. What they did was put in new wiring and paint the old houses ugly pastel green, blue, and pink. That was the last coat of paint those houses ever got. Within 10 years most of them where gone. Some where tore down. Some where sold and are probably hunting cabins in the woods somewhere. 20 years later the very, very few that remain are rotting with the 20 year old paint on them. The only people that came out ahead were the landlords who do not actually live in them. This why I cringe when I hear someone wants the government (at any level) to get involved in community revitalization (sp?). If community is a slum or ghetto, the problems is usually the people who own the buildings and those that live in them. Throwing millions of dollars into a neighborhood like that is just putting new stuff there to be destroyed. DRAIN THE SWAMP.
the interstate highway program was a government success, as well as national defense. government isn't inherently inept, it's the people involved. massive failure happens in private industry, as well.
What the hell is up with New Mexico? Just last night I saw a news program where they wasted like 8 million on a brand new municipal center then it was mismanaged and condemned and never opened. That state has some serious contractor corruption with city officials.
Federal state and local government workers who have anything to do with tax dollar wasteful spending need to be held accountable for these blunders "AND" need to be financially on the hook to pay back taxpayer dollars from their personal finances. We the people need to be able to confiscate bank accounts cars boats houses cottages property businesses aircraft motorhomes etc......of federal state and local government workers to pay back taxpayers.
Is this place for SALE? Who owns it? That slab would make a great landing place for drones and UFOs. If the old house goes with it, even better. The big problem was using city workers instead of a private contractor that would kick back money to the Legislature. The City got in the way of using public money for private benefit. No wonder the project was cancelled.
As a building inspector and one pursuing more in that career....that slab isn't a 1 million dollar job. Doesn't even appear to be post tension. (Not that it would make a HUGE difference). But it's clearly just a gouge by construction companies, engineering companies, probably city inspectors and maybe even the engineers. I would doubt the architect is to blame. To put in perspective. A crew of 15-20 experienced guys, an inspector/materials tester and a few concrete truck drivers. This is like 3 days work.
I think there waiting for the concrete slab to firm up....things take time.... I love the cemetery right next 2 it...."PEOPLE are just dying 2 get in there!!!!!! "
My town is in Central Virginia and the Virginia legislature has handed no funding over to my town, my town has built over 800 million dollars in Overpasses and Roads but is yet to build anything actually to worth. The next project a YMCA, like that means property value is gonna slope.
City of Albuquerque poured the pad with City Maintenance workers AFTER the Senate had clawed back the money. Would be nice if the City Attorney had an answer for "Who's going to jail for this?"
Actually that seems about right, there is more than just a slab sitting there there's all the underground utilities. You have to remember if you have a 16 million state project then it only turns out to be a few million dollars worth of actual construction work red tape eats the rest And it says the new mayor is the one that shut it down so it's basically the new mayor's fault
As soon as Gary Johnson left the whole state went to shit again. I no longer live in the state but visit my family there once or twice a year and this last time I was disgusted at the park I usually take my kids too. Normally it is well groomed and everything has been well kept, this time there were ant hills everywhere, grass was long enough to be cited for like the city would do to a resident, no one cleaning up their dog poop, and the equipment was destroyed, not to mention the crime has almost tripled due to a lack of law enforcement and crooked cops. Get it together New Mexico or Trumps gonna wall you in, just saying.
At 5:57 ~ Located right next to a goddamn cemetery, and, not a single mention of it being built right next to the place that everyone's dying to get in to!!!
Has anyone really looked at the actual site of this boone doggle? Not that I find being between a cemetary and a residental neighborhood wrong but is the slab actually sitting in a dry wash/ dry creek bed subject to flash flooding. Besides the archectural plans, the plumbing, electrical, HVAC, etc. where was the parking lot and sidewalks going to be placed. And how did they manage to get the concrete trucks to the slab forms without some type of improved road that could handle the weight? So how close to the adobe dewelling (walking distance?) is the slab?
It's easy to waste money when you are an arrogant bureaucrat and it's not your money, money that you worked hard for. Money you basically took by force out of peoples pocket. As you told them it was for their own good. This happens all over America.
Didn't u hear correctly, it took them 400,000 to do design land, plumbing, electrical, and slab and rest of it was not used but went back, because knowing that it will not be enough to complete it.. their fault was starting something that they knew wasn't enough money to finish it with.
$ 400,000 and they used city workers to save. Looks like someone got caught with their hand in the cookie jar to me. But that isn't half as bad as the law suits the police department brings you can add another 3 to 4 million of tax payers money to that.
As someone once said, if you put the government in charge of the Sahara desert, in 5 years there will be a shortage of sand.
russell5078084 That is more true, frighteningly enough, than anyone realizes. Have you ever noticed how much Silicone our buildings use? Silicone is sand, and only the finest sand from the ocean, will do. That may be the actual cause of rising sea levels
And pipe in thousands of gallons of water and turn it into a dry lake bed.
Prices of sand will go up $$$
I’ll be using that one for sure. 🙂
@@Americansikkunt bro you're delusional. Firstly, that hypothesis would cause sea drop, as you dug out the land under it. Secondly, you can literally watch the arctic and antarctic glaciers melt on satellite imagery. Thirdly, you're wrong about where glass comes from, it doesn't only come from the ocean. Science is real and there is no god. Capitalism is toxic and killing the planet.
For an extra $100 you could put ramps in and make it a skatepark
You mean $100,000! and it still cost $100!! for the ramps!.
@@tezwharton6599 🤣🤣🤣 ain’t that the truth!!!
@@tezwharton6599 and a side bathroom for 500,000
A couple 300,000 dollar benches for parents to wait for their kids
None of yall skate obviously. Just legally make some space and it'll fill up naturally. American processes at work here lol
so who's friend owned the concrete company?
Gus Fring.
I know right
All because the other building is not ADA compliant. I'm sorry but not everywhere should be forced to allow access for all. It's a historic building so be it, I would never think of going to a Castle in Europe and expect to roll a wheelchair around...LOL The original reason to build this was BS to begin with.
Yep. ADA can’t possibly be facilitated everywhere…. It’s bs
So you are perfectly fine with dicrimination got it.
I've watched a few of Larry's exposes and it's really depressing. I live the other side of the planet and we have the exact same corruption and incompetence as you have there and the bastards responsible keep their jobs and retire with their generous pensions paid for by the taxpayers. It makes me sick. No care, no responsibility and no repercussions yet if I don't cut my lawn correctly I am slammed with a fine and there is no right of appeal. I wish you well people of NM and hope things improve.
Odd how modern governments always seem to fail the individual while overwhelmingly supporting businesses and corporations, but greed in all forms corrupts nearly all people.
And New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson covered up Jeffrey Epstein with Scientologists and Balfour Beatty and retaliated against victims and kept his property under the control of Scientologists and rewarded perpetrators.
No joke bastards. I hate city code enforcment. We had a guy here in utah where his neighbor complained abou this yard. Well that guy burnt the complainers house down and shot and killed the code enforcment officer.
Typical for many States here in the US but especially in New Mexico. Someone has an idea and some político says "yeah, let's fund that!". Money is appropriated without a written proposal, plans or preliminary construction bids or a schedule in place. But New Mexico is unique in its boondoggles and SNAFUs at the State and local levels. Most of the State's revenue comes from oil and gas royalties and taxes. If commodity prices fall, so do revenues. Since the State doesn't build a "rainy-day fund" (nor would I trust it to), hard times come, "the well" runs dry, and there's no revenue. Projects that are started die. New Mexico is a beautiful State; I lived there 28 years and love the place; it's home for us. However, this sort of waste, stupidity and corruption is deeply embedded in its government and will never go away.
New Mexico, amateurs Illinois could have made that a 20-25 million $boondoggle with at least a half dozen ghost payrollers,cost overrun contracts for a "friend" and 3-4 unions fighting over it. You got a roughed in slab and bad plans for $400,000, sounds like a good price for commercial development
Well... They do say... If you want to be a professional crook, don't rob banks, take office in the public sector. Great report team.
There should be a new law for all contracted work where payment is put into escrow until the work is competed. This would protect the contractors from not getting paid and protect the buyer from the contractors running off with the money before the work is completed.
But, but, but, then how would they be able to skim?
Good point! Another great reason to set it up this way.
Oh snap, sounds like something the unions do to protect their employees🤔🤔
But they didn't use contractors. They used City maintenance works. And it wasn't even in Albuquerque in the first place! Corrales is a villiage north of Albuquerque where the city has no authority to do ANYTHING! ¡Gentes sin avergüenza!
That is the way it IS supposed to work
A government project does not go as planned? What else is new?
Planned? What plan?
You can drive to any Home Depot in Texas and find some laborers and supplies to pour the same slab for 30 bucks, and never leave the store
I have a infant niece that is smarter then you 30 dollars will get you maybe 10x10 by 4 inches deep
I'll give you the $30- you give me a roughed in 6,000sq/ft 8 in commercial slab,ok?
Should only cost about $400k
If you want it to take way too long and go over budget leave it to government to get it done
bazooka Joe i
bazooka Joe or modcon. Modcon, god.
bazooka Joe if u want it done hella fast and for way less $ call The Mexicans 😎🖒
Yet for some reason, people still vote for MORE government control and intervention.
"Maybe they'll get it right this time!"
Amen
They lied. They said their was no contract and it was done by maintenance worker. Then why are their plumbing and electrical pipes sticking up. Maintenance workers do plumbing and electric?
I'm a year late to this comment but an average Joe can follow plans and do the rough in/slab work it's not tough. Whether it's legal for the average Joe to do the job or not is another story.
@@safeplace8564 I'm three years late but I promise you maintenance workers didn't do all that.
that's the problem, you get people who don't know a damn thing about contracting, business, budgeting, or meeting deadlines but yet they're in charge of all these projects and we're the ones who have to pay the burden
Stop voting in demoRats. That is part of the problem right there. Tax and spend has always been the demoRat motto.
We need non politicians
Businessmen an women
Like Trump
they raised and collected property taxes for this, where did all the money go.
Line someone's else's pockets.
In the Mayor's back pocket.
a visitor center directly next to a cemetery, great idea
"Any job done under budget, and completed on time. Wasn't worth doing". The architect of the great pyramid
BADD1ONE I mean if we have slave labor like they did we could get just about anything done. allot of the great old government buildings you see we're done by slave labor. slavery's terrible, but I'll be damned if shit don't get done when you treat people like pack mules.
@@brandonc5376 slaves didn’t build the pyramids
@@self-promoterremover5611 Nope, it was the work of the civilization itself, not it's slaves
The equivalent of peasants and yeoman built the pyramids
The City takes the term "Concrete Plans" to a whole new level
It's a brilliant visitor centre as it stands. For the museum of bloated government.
I agree totally. The Mafia got busted for doing just what they do.
DeShawn 'Dawg' BNBG stupid pic
Remember boys and girls, it's ok as long as the government does it!
jed-henry. You are refering to the swamp are you? In my opinion, it is a higher level mafia.
Follow the money, you will probably find most of it in some politician and/or politician's crony"s pockets.
So that’s how the ancient megaliths got there
Our government is ridiculously wasteful and unorganized. I'm shocked that so many people still pay taxes.
U are paying taxes to the real land lords. Wake up from your dream
400k for plans and concrete? Really?
Government efficiency.
And conduit, and piping, and mobilization, and increased expenses for starting construction without a competitive bid...
Plans and drawings are very expensive, as well as concrete, rebar, plumbing, etc. 400k is high but not crazy especially if it was built with government workers who are union and don't know what they are doing in the first place. lol
For a complete set of phased Architectural, structural, plumbing, mechanical and electrical drawings (I saw the construction documents they showed were for core and shell, only the first phase)? Including MANY coordination meetings with the clients (remember, government is the client)? Verifying code compliance with local, state and federal codes? Compliance with ASHRAE, energy and the NEC codes? Environmental impact studies were also probably required. Was this a state-mandated LEED project? More paperwork, more hours to expense. THEN they paid their own workers (at inflated government wages) to pour the concrete rather than bid it out. Wonder why?
People DO NOT understand what is required tor a complete set of construction documents. Figure 10-15% of the TOTAL construction costs just for the PME documents alone.
+Bigrignohio
I dunno man. I drew most of my own plans in 2015 for Sacramento County. Did most of the work, too. Hired out the slab to my neighbor. 8 bucks a square foot. 8" thick with rebar grid but only very basic foundation design.
I was the guy dealing with the various building departments.
Planning, easements, fire, hiring foundation engineer for engineering, ECD for the septic system, building dept, all of the little organizations who wanted money and needed their box checked off of the plans prior to finalizing...
It's inflated labor costs. and it IS objectionable. absurd.
*_RETURN THE SLAAAAAB._*
That cost another $400 thousand just for planing!.
What's wrong with the reporter's nose? Looks like he joined fight club and talked about it.
Should have spent that money building her a new nose for starters, JeeeZus! It's fair to say she took a knuckle sandwich from her ex, Bap! Bap! Ba-bap!
2:40 What is this? A visitor center for ants?
Great reporting.
Spiderman pointing to other Spiderman.😂😂😂
My city supposedly spends almost 40% of the budget on roads but all I hear is people complaining about bad roads and all I see is terrible roads that cause damage to vehicles
Rc Buddy your not the only place that's dealing with roads so bad there destroying our vehicles.
What ticks me off is all the money I spend for vehicle registration and most of it goes to public schools. Then what’s left goes to fix roads in different parts of the state while the ones here are crumbling
We the taxpayers are never asked for input about the worthiness of such projects nor is it presented on a ballot for approval or disapproval. And once more no one is held accountable.
if they put the wheelchair into a vehicle compactor machine, it would definitely fit into the door.
Who thinks "we need a visitor center for a museum" isn't that kinda what a museum is/could be?
"City construction crew" are the important words.
This is almost as good as North Carolina's TAX FUNDED teapot museum in which everything is private and it is NOT open to the public...in fact, it's only open by appointment and invitation only.
Then it’s not a museum. Museums have very specific guidelines to be called a museum and are under the purview of the state’s attorney general.
Or in anybody finds out! as like done here hoping nobody notice!.
What are they gonna do with the property? Is it going up for auction?
I think there was a similar situation in Arizona with the government attempting to build a visitor center.
There have been worse situations with government leaders having trouble with keeping the so-called ball balanced.
Thank you for your helpful and informative videos!
So sad that all that money gone to waste....
I love Larry Barker.
I lol’d when Larry couldn’t pronounce acquisition lmao
Return the slab…Return the slab or suffer my curse.
a million fucking dollars for a lousy 6,000 sq ft??? not even a basement...
Good for skateboarding.
It's sad that local government entities are supposed to be responsible and aren't. But it's easy to make excuses over misspending funding but not have people that one can point fingers at to be held accountable for their inaction/action over a project that would've brought tourism $$$$ to the area. Unconscionable........
0:30 Close your eyes and hear Steve Martin.
You want to make sure a system is extremely inefficient and broken? Let the government do it.
FUCK big government, they are only there for their OWN interests, not the TAX PAYERS! Fight for small government.
I still remember a city government planned to spend $50,000 - $100,000 for a couple of steps in a park. A local came and built the steps for just $100
That was Toronto :)
Same thing in Shreveport. About 20 years ago someone in the government decided some old shotgun shacks near downtown needed to be renovated because they were a century old. They were basically 2 room, 700 square feet each pier and beam construction. They were in poor shape and owned by people who rented them out. The neighborhood was a ghetto (still is). Anyway the feds jumped in with money and I forget the numbers, but when you took the programs cost and divided it by the number of houses, it came out to be around $120,000 each. What they did was put in new wiring and paint the old houses ugly pastel green, blue, and pink. That was the last coat of paint those houses ever got. Within 10 years most of them where gone. Some where tore down. Some where sold and are probably hunting cabins in the woods somewhere. 20 years later the very, very few that remain are rotting with the 20 year old paint on them. The only people that came out ahead were the landlords who do not actually live in them. This why I cringe when I hear someone wants the government (at any level) to get involved in community revitalization (sp?). If community is a slum or ghetto, the problems is usually the people who own the buildings and those that live in them. Throwing millions of dollars into a neighborhood like that is just putting new stuff there to be destroyed. DRAIN THE SWAMP.
this was local, small, government.
He built them for $100 and it took him one day, not 18 months.
the interstate highway program was a government success, as well as national defense. government isn't inherently inept, it's the people involved. massive failure happens in private industry, as well.
astonishing that politicians can freely wast taxpayers money without repercussion
Thanks for the new skate spot.
What the hell is up with New Mexico? Just last night I saw a news program where they wasted like 8 million on a brand new municipal center then it was mismanaged and condemned and never opened. That state has some serious contractor corruption with city officials.
Turn it into a skatepark
It would cost another $400 thousand just for planing!. Nobody lives thier in middle off no where not get many kids thier!.
Federal state and local government workers who have anything to do with tax dollar wasteful spending need to be held accountable for these blunders "AND" need to be financially on the hook to pay back taxpayer dollars from their personal finances. We the people need to be able to confiscate bank accounts cars boats houses cottages property businesses aircraft motorhomes etc......of federal state and local government workers to pay back taxpayers.
“Not that I’m aware of” 🤣
Is this place for SALE? Who owns it? That slab would make a great landing place for drones and UFOs. If the old house goes with it, even better.
The big problem was using city workers instead of a private contractor that would kick back money to the Legislature. The City got in the way of using public money for private benefit. No wonder the project was cancelled.
A slab.... Literally reporting a slab.... what are you, Inside Edition?
Great logic.
I don't have enough energy to swim across this lake but I'm gonna start swimming anyways.
It's the kickbacks that screw up these projects
Hopefully you do a follow-up on this curious to see who all got caught,
As a building inspector and one pursuing more in that career....that slab isn't a 1 million dollar job. Doesn't even appear to be post tension. (Not that it would make a HUGE difference). But it's clearly just a gouge by construction companies, engineering companies, probably city inspectors and maybe even the engineers. I would doubt the architect is to blame.
To put in perspective. A crew of 15-20 experienced guys, an inspector/materials tester and a few concrete truck drivers. This is like 3 days work.
It’s just a metaphor they aren’t saying just the slab itself is a million dollars they literally say how much it is in the video
This is the most successful project the government ever had
Jesse. We need to cook...
Celtic Jay ❤
I think there waiting for the concrete slab to firm up....things take time.... I love the cemetery right next 2 it...."PEOPLE are just dying 2 get in there!!!!!! "
That woman is really good at her government speak. She could give classes in it
My town is in Central Virginia and the Virginia legislature has handed no funding over to my town, my town has built over 800 million dollars in Overpasses and Roads but is yet to build anything actually to worth. The next project a YMCA, like that means property value is gonna slope.
You need Walter White and THECAPN to run that town.
Built it next to a grave yard, who’s bright idea was that?
Idk why I find this so funny
Back for a good laugh😂
5 years later…. Any updates or progress??
City of Albuquerque poured the pad with City Maintenance workers AFTER the Senate had clawed back the money. Would be nice if the City Attorney had an answer for "Who's going to jail for this?"
Every county and state in the united states needs a Larry exposing taxpayer money being wasted
Actually that seems about right, there is more than just a slab sitting there there's all the underground utilities.
You have to remember if you have a 16 million state project then it only turns out to be a few million dollars worth of actual construction work red tape eats the rest
And it says the new mayor is the one that shut it down so it's basically the new mayor's fault
"Not that I remember"
equals plausible deniability.
As soon as Gary Johnson left the whole state went to shit again. I no longer live in the state but visit my family there once or twice a year and this last time I was disgusted at the park I usually take my kids too. Normally it is well groomed and everything has been well kept, this time there were ant hills everywhere, grass was long enough to be cited for like the city would do to a resident, no one cleaning up their dog poop, and the equipment was destroyed, not to mention the crime has almost tripled due to a lack of law enforcement and crooked cops. Get it together New Mexico or Trumps gonna wall you in, just saying.
Why didn't they build a large "pull barn" like structure around the entire adobe building? For a similar example look up Colorado Springs Ghost town.
That's what politicians do best: Take your money, waste some of it, and put the rest in their pockets, then lie about it.
At 5:57 ~ Located right next to a goddamn cemetery, and, not a single mention of it being built right next to the place that everyone's dying to get in to!!!
Has anyone really looked at the actual site of this boone doggle? Not that I find being between a cemetary and a residental neighborhood wrong but is the slab actually sitting in a dry wash/ dry creek bed subject to flash flooding. Besides the archectural plans, the plumbing, electrical, HVAC, etc. where was the parking lot and sidewalks going to be placed. And how did they manage to get the concrete trucks to the slab forms without some type of improved road that could handle the weight? So how close to the adobe dewelling (walking distance?) is the slab?
It's easy to waste money when you are an arrogant bureaucrat and it's not your money, money that you worked hard for. Money you basically took by force out of peoples pocket. As you told them it was for their own good. This happens all over America.
Do you know every single one of those politicians pocket of that
Skate spot ?
Everyone is talking about politics but when I hear million dollar slab I think of that one episode of courage the cowardly dog
If there's no museum how was there a museum director to request money?
how much did he get out of it.
3:14 "was dead" showing the slab next to a cemetery. Nice touch. 1:26 Senator John Arthur Smith is from Deming - so he knows the value of a dollar.
RETTURRNN THE SLABBB!!
Its a beautiful Slab
400k for blueprints? And a shot slab. So 4K at most for blueprints, and another 22k for slab. Looks like to me a scam
I would guess that the slab cost 50 thousand dollars and someone pocketed 900,50 thousand dollars!!
Didn't u hear correctly, it took them 400,000 to do design land, plumbing, electrical, and slab and rest of it was not used but went back, because knowing that it will not be enough to complete it.. their fault was starting something that they knew wasn't enough money to finish it with.
If they just put a few more bucks in it they could have a great drag strip for radio controlled cars !
*You should try to get rid of the gang violence and meth, that would give your state a boost!*
oh. like the art project?
Everyone going to ignore that Dana Feldman looks like Mrs Skelator.
it was well noted
You should investigate how many houses he has and cars
I live in Illinois we have million dollar slabs everywhere.. what's the big deal??
$ 400,000 and they used city workers to save. Looks like someone got caught with their hand in the cookie jar to me. But that isn't half as bad as the law suits the police department brings you can add another 3 to 4 million of tax payers money to that.
400k for a concrete slab that is ignorant AF
New Mexico. . . Any questions.
A fricking museum? A museum? Out in the middle of nowhere? Who the Fuck is gonna go visit a damn museum? Nobody! Thats who.
So what happened to the slab?
Embezzlement is the word
LOL.. Right next to a graveyard.
That's a nice slab
My town has a million dollar bridge to nowhere! They said they had to build it or lose the federal money!
Bureaucrats standing around pointing fingers at each other.
Did someone say funky comadena