More Obscurity

     It’s important to recognize that this is a commissioning situation, where certain firms receive contracts from the government to undertake these projects in the name of economic development or construction of a school facility. That being the case, then why do the commission’s financial records indicate the purchase of materials that any potential candidate for receiving a construction commission would already have? For example, a 2010 allocation of $20,965,000 “to fund the purchase of equipment for construction projects nearing completion.” What in tarnation? 21 million dollars can buy a whole heck of a lot of whatever the contractor could possibly require of the commission. This demands explanation in itself – but becomes particularly suspicious considering what is going on in the supposedly private sector of off-campus student housing. To build a library, and to build a top-notch housing complex, are two projects that both require a lot of the same expensive capital – machinery like dozers, loaders, cranes, and lifts, and experts like engineers, architects, and electricians.