OPEN – My proposal to the Vernon Community Music School Vernon Community Music School The Vernon Community Music School needed a better foundation. This plan I proposed saved the Music School about $200k or more and it was my plan the Board later decided to use instead of the original proposed plan which they had already spent a lot of money for engineering and had begun a campaign to raise money. Vernon Music School-sept2012newsletter ( see Sound Foundation section )
They hired engineer’s, received proposals from 2 contractors and began raising the $350k – $400k needed to lift the building and replace the entire basement foundation as per the contractor’s proposal and the engineer’s instructions.
Then I became involved and after my detailed evaluation of the 100+ yr old building, the existing foundation, determined the point loads, structural design & planning for the project and consultations with the engineer’s I use which are different from the ones the music school had already hired.
I then proposed a plan to the Vernon Community Music School board that was completely different from what the other contractors were proposing for upgrading the basement foundation.
But when the contract was awarded for this project I was not given a chance to compete against the other contractor, instead the original contractor was given my proposed plan and was then given the job.
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