You are like a ‘cleansing rainfall’ in the realm of municipal politics. I hope to be standing nearby late on the evening of the 25th.

Everybody will finally get a good look at the books. A friend of mine has developed a significant list of financial items requiring an answer.

Meantime, WE ALL recognize your exception efforts to bring clarity to Burlington.

For many years I worked as an industrial engineer and was often responsible for new equipment and facilities. If I worked on something I didn’t understand, (I am not a professional engineer), I made very certain that the contractor explained in great simple details what they actually where going to do. I did this as a matter of self preservation. If things went wrong my head was on the block. It appears that city engineers and legal department accepted an unproven design idea without covering their own, the city’s and taxpayers backs.

They are probably all still at city hall accepting their yearly pay raise (or god forbid “Bonus”) and waiting for their next opportunity to spend taxpayers money.

Private industry usually holds their employees responsible, why doesn’t city council.

One question.  Is the firm of Totten, Sims, Hubicki part of AECOM?  Apart from Harm Schilthius, they are the only other outside company mentioned in Council minutes.

One comment.  If you are correct in your assessment that the City is playing a waiting game, hoping that either AECOM’s or else Harm Schiltius’ insurance will cover some of the costs, maybe this isn’t so dumb.  It seems to me that the correctness or lack thereof of the design is the root cause of all the problems.  Schilthius say they have assembled a “dream team”.  Why should we believe them?