Bureaucracy Is Too Costly
Are you pleased with the way your elected and appointed officials are running the city of Oxnard?
The city library: More than six weeks ago, I requested an accounting of the more than 100 change orders so far for the construction of the new library with no reply to date. A change order is for extras that were not included in the original plans and specifications, which took over a year’s work by architects and engineers and cost more than $1 million. The original plans and specifications had to be approved by no less than the library committee, the librarian, the city manager, the Building Division, the Planning Division, the coastal committee, the City Council, the Police Department, the Fire Department, the contractor and city inspectors . . . to name a few!
Why then does there need to be so many change orders that add so much more money to the cost of the new library? What are all of these change orders for? Are these change orders really necessary?
Tell me, please, who is watching the chicken coop? I think it is the fox.
CURT DAVISON
Treasurer, Oxnard Residents
for Responsible Government
Oxnard
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