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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Friends of McMillan Park: ? funds for McMillan are not sufficient through FY 2018 ?

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 Any proceeds from sale of revert to General Fund?- along with "our new park'?
2:20 PM - 30 Nov 2014

                              
 



 Funds are not sufficient through FY 2018?
2:10 PM - 30 Nov 2014
                                   
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 Time to do some math!
2:07 PM - 30 Nov 2014

 7 hours ago
folks: what is the source of the info in this tweet?
 7 hours ago
Hey, It's from the committee reports voted on Tues. I think the 1 I tweeted. They are similar but 1 has this.
 3 hours ago
. If you want to post on blog, the fiscal impact statement is on pp 142-143.
 2 hours agoWashington, DC
. That chart is in the Committee Report -on page 9. Might be nice to post the committee report if you have time
7:08 PM - 30 Nov 2014
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2 comments:

  1. Daniel in brooklandWednesday, December 03, 2014 10:42:00 PM

    The $9.3 million paid by the district, which the federal govt. did not want. Martine Combal, who is filling in for Deputy Mayor M. Jeffrey Miller, lied immediately after taking the oath, at the Mayor's Agent hearings. She said that GSA intended, the land sold to DC, for "mixed-use development". False, the federal govt tried to give the land to DC for free, if Dc wold maintain it as park. So obviously, she saw how Jeff Miller was promoted for lying to Bowser about paying for the Fontaine slime campaign. Ms. Combal will get her position permanent , since she also lied under oath.
    When you add the $9.3 million, which sat unused for 27 years, wasted in racist discrimination against this African- American community, and add the $250,000 a year DC govt. wasted on lawn mowing( a thousand dollars a day!),, they wasted about $20 million for a fence to keep you out of your park. So that money would have restored the site to safe use, taken the fence down, and started the conservancy decades ago...Bloomingdale you are Butt of this pathetic joke!!

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  2. UnknownFriday, December 05, 2014 7:01:00 AM

    Scott,

    Please note that these construction figures for the District conflict with those in the Valbridge Appraisal Report. Specifically, look at page 77 of the same Committee Report. In that appraisal, the District estimates are as follows:

    Public Infrastructure: $14,600,000 ($12,200,000 in committee statement on costs)
    Finished Pads - $17,700,000 ($15,800,000 in committee statement on costs)
    Historic Preservation $21,700,000 ($16,500,000 in committee statement on costs)
    Parks and Open Space - $12,800,000 ($11,300,000 in committee statement on costs)
    Soft Costs/Other - $9,700,000 ($22,500,000 in committee statement on costs)

    Total Costs - $76,500,000 ($78,300,000 in committee statement on costs)

    That leaves about $2 million that needs to be reconciled between the two estimates. There are also pretty gross differences in the estimates for particular categories. For example, why is the cost for historic preservation $5 million more in the appraisal report but the total costs $2 million less in that same report?

    Personally, I have asked for these figures, and justification for these figures, several times from the development team. These have not been provided. I would urge everyone to take these estimates with a grain of salt as they were provided by the development team to the District, rather than the District independently reaching their own estimates.

    Mathew Bader
    BCA MAG Representative

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