Response to a Question from Kathie

Response to a Question from Kathie

Question from Kathie:

The State Auditor claims that the Orange County Great Park lacked transparency and fairness in overseeing the consultants who worked on it. The standards under which Irvine chose to conduct the review were less rigorous than industry standards that ensure independent analysis. Also, the city didn’t follow its policies for awarding a key contract related to the review and allowed consultants to start work without final approvals, which led to excessive costs. As Mayor, what are you going to do about this? Thank you very much…

Response:

Kathie,

You are right. Career politicians have turned the Great Park into the biggest scandal in Irvine history. See the link:

http://gangchenusa.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-great-park-is-biggest-scandal-in.html

If I am elected as the Mayor of Irvine, I will:

1.      Implement all the suggestions in the OC Great Park Grand Jury Report. See the link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/25sk6mxns9fvu2l/Great_Park_Website.pdf?dl=0

2.      Make sure big money and special interests groups can no longer have a party and steal or waste our taxpayer money. Gaido is a sidekick for Larry Agran, who was in charge of the city from 2002 to 2012 and is mainly responsible for the Great Park. So, if we elect Gaido, we are bringing back the same Agran team that created the Great Park disaster.

3.      Use my decades of experience in design and construction as a licensed architect in California to make sure the Great park is built. Career politicians turned the Great Park into the biggest scandal in Irvine history. Industry standards for overhead and profit for a construction project is typically 10% to 20% of the overall cost, and yet the Great Park’s overhead and profit is over 50%. Less than half of the 251 million dollars was spent was on design and construction of the Great Park, 43 million dollars went missing, and 46 million dollars was wasted on a set of construction plans that were never used. How can the career politicians waste the 46 million dollars? How did they go so far before they realized the mess? The Great Park project’s scope should have been adjusted at the schematic stage if the project was over the budget, and they should NOT have wasted 46 million dollars to create a set of plans that they could NOT afford to build.

4.      Stop the career politicians and special interest groups and protect you, our taxpayers’ interest in the Great Park.

NO Gaido, NO come back for Agran, and NO special interest groups.

Haven’t we had enough of career politicians' failed policies? Enough is enough: Do NOT vote for another career politician such as Mary Ann Gaido .

On November 8, please vote for me, Gang Chen, for a real change. Together, we can make Irvine better. I’ll be honored to have your vote.

Please see our campaign website (GangChenUSA.com) for my platform and solutions for Irvine.

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