EDITOR:

“Dereliction of duty? Fix my Street! ” that was on the front lawn of a resident on Stephenson Avenue.

And the “Snafu”. Stephenson Avenue road project. And more than Stephenson Avenue. And the city council and Mr Jeff Lampi’s snafu.

My understanding the Escanaba City Council hired Oberstar as the general contractor for the lead pipe replacement project which Mr. Jeff Lampi was in charged of. I would like to know who wrote that contract for Oberstar, who reviewed the contract, and did the contract have a completion date? Did the city know who Oberstar was subcontracting the cement work (curbing and adaptive sidewalk corners) to and who reviewed that contract?

That subcontractor was Marshall from Lower Michigan and all that cement work done by that contractor ended in the scrap pile of concrete behind Public Works. All that new concrete went into the 18,000 ton pile that the city claims they’ve been collecting for many years. Now the cost of crushing it will cost the city $99,000. My first question is how many tons of new concrete South 10th Street and Stephenson Avenue was dumped in that pile because the project wasn’t done right?

Now…we paid for a job that wasn’t done right and now we’re paying to have the new concrete crushed and the hiring of another subcontractor to do the job again.

Just how many snafu’s do us taxpayers have to pay for.

I’ve watched many city council meetings from home and watched Mr. Jeff Lampi at the podium way too many times asking for more dollars and continually pontificating about projects.

Well, Mr. Lampi and Escanaba City Council you’ve increased our city water rates and we’ve been paying those new increased rates but we can’t use our streets to get home…to have a cool glass of water from those new pipes. Maybe you shouldn’t have increased those rates until the job was completed.

Back to my first question. Who wrote the contract for Oberstar?

Ann Fix

Escanaba