Mayor's office? More power, say the people
By JEAN-MARC LEGER
| Full Column This screwup happened on Comrade Miller's watch....... |
City Hall Bureau
Inexperience and lack of supervision caused delays and other problems that more than doubled the cost of a publicly financed apartment building, says a City of Toronto audit report.
The recently completed 48-unit building, on the site of a former fire hall on Finch Ave. W. near Weston Rd., was to have been finished in mid-2002 for $5.5 million, or $109,000 per unit. Instead costs ballooned to $12.4 million, or $249,000 per unit.
City council will decide at its July 15 meeting whether to turn the project over to its housing agency, the Toronto Community Housing Corp. The project, under Toronto's "Let's Build" affordable housing program, was awarded to a community group, Ghana Amansie Canadian Non-Profit Homes, that had no experience in developing housing projects and failed to raise its agreed equity contribution of $240,000, says the report, issued by auditor general Jeffrey Griffiths
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