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Good Government
As founder of WikiLaw.org, I believe that the Government and its body of law should be transparent for the people it governs. As founder of VoterSearch.org, I believe that protecting your right to vote is essential to an accountable government. As former Co-Chair of Community Board 8's Communication Committee, I worked to open the community board by announcingcommunity board membership applications and ensuring they were widely available at meetings. I have continued my work with Community Board 8's Communication Committee and we have made its television show "Community Board 8 Speaks" available online.
As your City Council member I will continue the work of making City Hall transparent by making its business available online through the web, PDF, podcast, and YouTube like videos. I will openCity Hall by creating NYC.OpenLegislation.org, a local version of OpenCongress.org, where anyone will be able to share their views on all business, in support of the mission of theParticipatory Politics Foundation. City Hall will become accountable to you the people as NYC.OpenLegislation.org, will let you track business before City Hall and how your representative voted on issues of importance to you.
As your City Council member I will continue the work of making City Hall transparent by making its business available online through the web, PDF, podcast, and YouTube like videos. I will openCity Hall by creating NYC.OpenLegislation.org, a local version of OpenCongress.org, where anyone will be able to share their views on all business, in support of the mission of theParticipatory Politics Foundation. City Hall will become accountable to you the people as NYC.OpenLegislation.org, will let you track business before City Hall and how your representative voted on issues of importance to you.
Solution for Good Government: Improve Quality of Public Works and Avoid Project Cost Overruns
Submitted by admin on Wed, 10/03/2012 - 11:23am
Issue:
Good Government
Solution:
Improve Quality of Public Works and Avoid Project Cost Overruns Explanation:
Many New York City contracts currently go to the lowest bidder creating a situation where some bidders have become notorious for bidding less than a project is likely to cost only to recover their costs later through provision in the contract or overruns where the tax payers end up paying more than they expected.
We recommend that for projects of a certain size an independent body provide a City agency with a minimum bid that accounts for cost plus statutory profit as a floor for bids. Any bids received below that number would be automatically disqualified. Bids would also be weighted based on past and current cost overruns, so that a bid of $100 million by a compnay with a history of 20% overruns would be automatically adjusted to $120 million.
Source:
Jack Kittle, Political Director IUPAT District 9 Crain's Insider New Site by Erik Engquist
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Issue:
Good Government
