Pricey Justice in Cuyahoga County
Thursday, August 7th, 2008 By Marc Kilmer
Looking through Cuyahoga County’s 2007 financial report, I came across this info:
The County expects to issue up to approximately $167 million of various purpose general obligation bonds in the last half of 2007. Approximately $80.5 million will be used to pay the costs of construction of a new Juvenile Court and Youth Intervention Center which have been incurred and will be incurred through 2008. The property is currently owned by the County and underwent some environmental remediation. The estimated cost of this new joint facility building is $144 million and construction is expected to take three years.
This is one of the buildings of interest to federal investigators in the Jimmy Dimora and Frank Russo scandal. From news reports it appears that investigators are looking at whether or not construction companies connected to Russo and Dimora may have obtained their contracts improperly. If so, taxpayers in Cuyahoga County should question if this building could have been built a little more affordably. It looks pretty swanky to me.
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