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Commissioners press DPW, question bond spending after delays on Station 35 and other projects
Summary
Commissioners pressed department leaders and asked whether Public Works management fees and spent liquidated-damages funds are reducing funds available for fire-station work; Station 35 remains delayed by at least six months over a missing electrical 'point of connection.'
SAN FRANCISCO — Commissioners used the April 28 Fire Commission meeting to press the department on project delays and the cost of outside project management, raising concerns that management fees and unreturned liquidated damages are reducing bond and department funds available for station work.
Commissioners noted 15 sewage backups at department facilities since Jan. 1 and asked whether bond or public-works funds could be used to replace sewer laterals; department staff said aging infrastructure, winter grease congealing and…
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