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Money Wasted

Lake Worth Utilities
Waste Meter

$50,000
... for an arc flash study that Mr. Reyes was qualified to do in house and at no cost to taxpayers.

$200,000
... the estimated engineering cost of the express feeder which could also be done in house at no cost to taxpayers.

$591,898
... wasted when insurance requirements were circumvented by the city manager and utility director.

$123,098
... wasted when plant manager Dave Mulvay’s first attempt at writing a scope of work contained a defect that cost taxpayers an extra $123,098 for tainting the bidding process and giving unfair advantage to one bidder over another. - April 2009

$64,000
... wasted when the Matrix organizational study to save taxpayers money was scrapped in favor of higher cost outsourcing by city manager Stanton.

$450,000
... wasted engineering design cost of water piping and tanks (original county water deal) that will never be built.

$59,975
... wasted when additional costs were incurred for not following insurance procedure on transformer repair.

$82,620
... wasted when the commission unanimously voted to order transformers when we had equivalent replacements already in stock since the upgrade. - 15 Sep. 2009

Total Taxpayer Dollars Wasted:
$1,621,591


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