So, someone pays for a report only not to read it.

Check this out via the D&C

A $225,000 engineer’s audit from 2006 of a massive building project in the Greece Central School District went unread by the district superintendent and Board of Education until last month, when shoddy construction forced the closure of parts of 13 schools.

The report, compiled by Loewke and Brill Consulting Group, looked into 14 contracts associated with the $120 million capital improvement project from 2000.

I don’t claim to know the players in Greece but I found this quote interesting.

As the Greece schools gear up to begin a $21.4 million capital project voters approved in December, school board President Julia VanOrman said it’s imperative school leaders deal with lingering problems from the 2000 project.

“It doesn’t help to throw stones or get involved in the blame game,” she said. “What we need to do is learn our lessons so we don’t repeat those going forward. Sometimes in this community, there’s a tendency to get hung on what happened in the past … we look to the past so we don’t make mistakes in the future, but it’s important to look at today and plan for tomorrow.”

She said it’s obvious the 2000 project was plagued with problems, given both the Loewke and Brill report and the discovery of the missing wind clips.

The lesson here is people need to pay attention and hold those they hire accountable - contractors or elected officials.

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