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Civil grand jury flags city construction-management problems; Board asks for further analysis
Summary
The civil grand jury's construction-program report identified fragmented systems, weak change-order reporting, insufficient contract close-outs, and recommended benchmarking and a citywide construction-management system. The Board accepted many findings, requested further analysis or recommended actions where jurisdictional limits applied, and continued the hearing for follow-up.
A civil grand jury report presented Oct. 9 criticized San Francisco's management of building construction projects and urged reforms including contractor past-performance criteria, uniform change-order reporting, mandatory contract closeouts, a citywide construction-management system, and improved public reporting of project final costs.
The grand-jury committee said the city lacks a unified construction-management system across departments, making it difficult to compare original budgets to final costs and to…
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