You Get What You Pay For!

by Contributor | June 6, 2017 1:23 pm

To The Editor:
Over the past two years everyone that either lives or has passed through the city of Fulton from the south entrance via route 481 has viewed our FREE demolition of the Nestle site.

Citizens have either read or heard about at least 4 target dates of the completion date and the start date of an Aldi store. Again, the demo was FREE.

During these past two years we have witnessed many loads of scrap metal being removed and piles of Construction Debris accumulate. It was for FREE.

We have seen most times anywhere from ONE person in an excavator to half dozen removing asbestos from the buildings. On occasion, a few loads being taken to the land fill. It was for FREE.

Now after two years of agony the contractor walks away after removing, who knows how much scrap metal and leaving us another mess to clean up.

It was for FREE.

Now some will say he knocked down 70% of the buildings. I say YES but he took 100% of the value of the scrap metal and only 5% of the CD material went to the landfill.

It was for FREE.

He also charged the city $230,000 for crushed bricks as fill for a parking lot. It also cost the city about $110,000 for the air monitoring. It was FREE.

Now enter the picture Rowlee Construction being paid by the city to clean up a mess left by the FREE contractor.

We have witnessed more activity at the Nestle site in the past week then we have in two years. We have witnessed Rowlee Construction remove more in a week than was ever removed in the past two years.

Rowlee is being paid.

The site is looking like a construction site instead of a bombed-out war zone.

Rowlee Construction is a class act.

Predictions are that it will cost the city the same amount of money to clean up the mess left by the FREE contractor and to demo the rest of the buildings as it would have cost in the beginning.

What did we lose, it was for FREE.

We lost the property tax revenue, the revenue from the sale of all the other sites.

Now that we have Rowlee construction on the job being paid we will start to see things coming together – the starting of Aldi and soon the demo of the rest of the site.

You get what you pay for!

Frank Castiglia Jr.
Taxpayer in the city of Fulton

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