Think a lot of that preserves this is how big the mistake has been i was presuming there was this from a Construction Design standpoint that at this point that could be gained by reviewing that but this board knows that was a mistake from when i got back on i wasnt on the board when the decision was made it was a policy decision i presume that the board at a time was fully briefed on you can spend all the money in the world on safety it is a question really costs us a lot of money if, in fact, there is a revisit this is productive id like to know about it the board should say okay. Heres the architect and turner look in you revisit it theres a net gain possibility up i want see that. One thing to take into consideration of the curtain engineering have been done according to the criteria if we go back and redesign that costs additional costs and details many months there is additional costs for the system were late in the game to be rethinking that. Thats my thing i want to see from the
Guidance criteria be removed from a facility of that nature. I was urban aware we had that choice to reinvite in your opinion we dont but from a design standpoint is there something that because i think getting into this high security post 9 11 was a big mistake i think a lot of that preserves this is how big the mistake has been i was presuming there was this from a Construction Design standpoint that at this point that could be gained by reviewing that but this board knows that was a mistake from when i got back on i wasnt on the board when the decision was made it was a policy decision i presume that the board at a time was fully briefed on you can spend all the money in the world on safety it is a question really costs us a lot of money if, in fact, there is a revisit this is productive id like to know about it the board should say okay. Heres the architect and turner look in you revisit it theres a net gain possibility up i want see that. One thing to take into consideration of th
Construction total of one billion dollars plus virus a smaller budget for the soft costs the budget has 575 million and the revised is lower and for the contingency and reserve it as 61 . Million plus the reserve is less for and that shows you a delta of 499 million as i shared with you last month the remainder possible mitigation measure moving forward without impacting the construction of Transit Center or the minimal operation is the bus storage facilitated the budget that was presented today has 19. 4 million for the bus storage and for the funding if he were to mitigate the storage for the bus storage mitigation is drops to 4 hundred plus Million Dollars and we would fund part of that cost from the sale of what is left 460 million plus those are the Funding Sources are landfills, fuming grants and the melrose and sponsoring of changes the rfp we expect to get that in october and any money will reduce our need for the other areas. The next step is basically, the order packages weve
Overall number in the law, the budget control act, requesting basically a little bit over 1 trillion. 1. 1 trillion as the law allows for. Within that number, he really departed from the budget control act numbers, and he requested a lot more for defense programs. About 54 billion for security related programs. And covers that with an equal amount of cuts in nondefense spending, 54 billion. So thats a violation of the budget control act there. But more than that, its very politically unpopular. Yes members really like the , defense spending increase, but they dont like taking it out of nondefense programs agriculture cut more than 20 . Transportation, federal housing programs cut 15 . Labor, health, Education Programs cut similarly. State Department Programs cut tremendously. And congress is rejecting that. They dont really have their own plan nailed down. While they are inclined to give a lot more to defense, they are not as interested in those nondefense spending cuts. It matters of
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