Leucadia Blog: Library to be Improved

Monday, April 18, 2011

Library to be Improved

From the in box:

"After spending $20 million and taking on decades of debt to fund a Taj Mahal library, the city is now acknowledging that they let the contractors get away with shoddy construction and the first repair tab for the still-new building is $143,000."

Andy

The council is discussing this in two days. Link to the council agenda: http://archive.ci.encinitas.ca.us/weblink8/browse.aspx?startid=664562&dbid=0

3 comments:

FREDApril 18, 2011 8:28 PM
I wonder how they arrived at that $143,000 price tag when it hasn't gone out to bid yet?
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Huntington HartfordApril 18, 2011 9:44 PM
Simple math:
10 mexicans, 10 shovels = $1,000
1 ole' boy = $142,000
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Violet CadburryApril 18, 2011 10:36 PM
The City is the inspector who approves the work, who ever passed this shoddy work should be fired.
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Leucadia is a funky little beach community located in North San Diego county in southern California. Leucadia is the north section of the city of Encinitas.

English spiritualists settled the small coastal community of Leucadia in 1870, and are reputed to have danced, in diaphanous white robes in the little Roadside Park (Leucadia Blvd and Hwy 101).

The spiritualists are the reason so many of the streets are named after Greek gods and goddesses. Leucadia is Greek for "a sheltered place." Heritage Eucalyptus trees, planted in the 1880s, still grace the highway. When President Roosevelt passed through Leucadia in an open car during the Depression, local children climbed the Eucalyptus trees to wave to him.

Change happens slowly in this nostalgic little California beach town. In lieu of fast food restaurants and franchise chain stores, Leucadia has two miles of Mom 'n Pop businesses, and that's the way everyone likes it. The town war cry is "Keep Leucadia Funky."

Leucadia played an active role in the rebirth of the classic Highway 101 shield, restored in 1997, and was part of the successful 101 Campaign to have Highway 101 declared an historic route.

Leucadia is experiencing growing pains and culture clash in these first decades of the 21st century...

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