re: Taxpayer-funded Bridge Center for Hope: Public can't see lease with former board member

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If you are receiving public funds, you BETTER be able to cough up contract details involving the expenditures of public dollars.

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shite, in Baton Rouge, if you hide what you're doing, then get called out for illegally padding overtime hours and engaging in political activities funded by the public, we give you MORE money.

More details. they released the lease. Must be nice to be a Temple.

LINK

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The document contains few surprises, as the general terms—$1.1 million over five years—was already known. But questions had arisen over why the nonprofit agency, which is funded by a 1.5-mil property tax and Recovery Innovations Inc., which will operate the center, refused to disclose it.

According to a review of the lease, which was executed Feb. 1 between RII and Temple’s Human Resource Group, RII will pay a base rent beginning this year of $206,640 for 17,220 square feet of clinic space. That amount will increase slightly each year to $223,673 by year five of the agreement.

Additionally, RII will pay an additional $67,800 per year during the duration of the lease, or $339,000 total, for some 6,780 square feet of storage.

RII will have an option to extend the lease for two additional five-year terms. If the company exercises the option, base rent will increase 2% each year.

Additionally, RII agrees to pay Temple $150,000 to demolish the interior of the building, seal the flooring and secure a new roof. RII, in turn, will complete the buildout of the facility, which will include two crisis suites, a detox suite and a respite suite

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and the tenant is paying for renovations. Man what a deal!

Man, they aren’t even trying to hide the “frick you taxpayer”

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Man, they aren’t even trying to hide the “frick you taxpayer”

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But guys, he resigned from the board AFTER they chose his building. That makes everything okay, right?

Bump because screw the corrupt officials