{"id":6126,"date":"2010-07-01T11:54:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T16:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/"},"modified":"2017-09-03T14:21:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T19:21:54","slug":"why-a-7-3-million-stimulus-project-is-a-year-behind-schedule-in-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/why-a-7-3-million-stimulus-project-is-a-year-behind-schedule-in-san-antonio\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a $7.3 million stimulus project is a year behind schedule in San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p  style=\" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\">   <a title=\"View Red tape stalls stimulus project in San Antonio on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/33742175\/Red-tape-stalls-stimulus-project-in-San-Antonio\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >Red tape stalls stimulus project in San Antonio<\/a> by <a title=\"View John Tedesco's profile on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/John_Tedesco\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >John Tedesco<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/33742175\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-xdm14vlnp1lpx1qi272&#038;show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.75\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_29075\" width=\"720\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been checking how stimulus funds are being spent in Bexar County, and one of the interesting things we&#8217;ve learned is how money for some projects still hasn&#8217;t been spent, more than a year after the Recovery Act became law.<\/p>\n<p>Last month I met Peter Zanoni, assistant city manager for the city of San Antonio who&#8217;s in charge of the city&#8217;s stimulus projects. He and his staff said the stimulus is great for San Antonio but they were also open about some of the difficulties they faced. At one point, Zanoni showed me a chart detailing how the city had been awarded $118 million in stimulus money. But as of April, the city had only spent about a tenth of that &#8212; $12 million.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cSo you\u2019re probably saying, \u2018Jeez, what are you guys doing? That\u2019s pretty weak,\u2019\u201d Zanoni quipped.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that officials want to spend the money quickly, but they also want to make sure it&#8217;s spent appropriately. There&#8217;s a ton of federal oversight &#8212; audits, reviews, paperwork &#8212; that the city must deal with.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up focusing on an example of a project that was mired in red tape. The city had plans for two fire stations that were &#8220;shovel ready&#8221; and had received $7.3 million in stimulus grants. The money came from FEMA &#8212; the Federal Emergency Management Agency. I got a tip that the project was taking forever and the contractor on the job, Bartlett Cocke, even had to lay off a few employees.<\/p>\n<p>Not quite what the stimulus program was supposed to be accomplishing.<\/p>\n<p>The tip turned out to be true &#8212; I interviewed Kirk Kistner at Bartlett Cocke who confirmed it. I also asked for any e-mails from the city that discussed the delays with the fire stations and other stimulus projects. It&#8217;s important in these kinds of stories to track down pertinent documents. Tad Wille, budget program analysis manager for the city who somehow keeps track of all the paperwork tied to stimulus projects, was very helpful in compiling a pile of e-mails discussing the delays.<\/p>\n<p>In one message, a deputy fire chief updated his bosses about the federal regulations that were slowing down the project: &#8220;FEMA stated to me that \u2018shovel ready\u2019 was not a term in their lexicon,&#8221; the chief wrote. The e-mails helped lay out the timeline of events and revealed concerns expressed privately by city officials.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Red-tape-stalls-stimulus-project-in-San-Antonio.png\" alt=\"Red tape stalls stimulus project in San Antonio\" width=\"480\" height=\"146\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Red-tape-stalls-stimulus-project-in-San-Antonio.png 480w, https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Red-tape-stalls-stimulus-project-in-San-Antonio-300x91.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One thing I wanted to know is whether other fire departments were experiencing similar delays with these fire station grants. Federal data allowed us to answer that question.<\/p>\n<p>Recipients of stimulus dollars file spending reports, and that data is posted online at <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100831044439\/http:\/\/www.recovery.gov\/Pages\/home.aspx\">Recovery.gov<\/a>, the official website of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. In the data, each type of grant is identified by a specific code. So you can filter the data by that code to find who has received similar grants.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I did for the fire station grants. It allowed me to write the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/Red_tape_delays_some_stimulus_projects_97448789.html?showFullArticle=y\">following graphs in my story about the fire stations<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAccording to the most recent spending reports posted online by the Recovery Board, 118 fire departments in the United States had been awarded nearly $200 million in grant money to build new stations. But four of five recipients reported the projects have yet to start, and few jobs have been created.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons for the delays aren\u2019t always FEMA\u2019s fault. In the town of Edgewater, Fla., the station still is being designed, so a detailed environmental assessment required by FEMA didn\u2019t interfere with construction, Fire Captain Jill Danigel said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat process did take us many, many months,\u201d Danigel said. \u201cIf we were shovel ready, that would have held us up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Valley Hill, N.C., Fire Chief Tim Garren said he\u2019s in the \u201csame boat\u201d as the San Antonio Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re as shovel ready as can be,\u201d said Garren, whose department received a $640,000 grant in September 2009 to build a new station. Garren still is waiting for the environmental assessment at the site to be approved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to fuss because it\u2019s going to be free money, and it\u2019s greatly needed,\u201d Garren said. \u201cBut it\u2019s still frustrating.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We plan to run more stories about local stimulus projects and their impact in Bexar County. I&#8217;ve been bookmarking interesting websites about the stimulus and <a href=\"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/what-stimulus-projects-are-being-funded-in-bexar-county-and-whats-the-price-tag\/\">sharing them online through Diigo<\/a>, feel free to check them out and offer recommendations or tips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red tape stalls stimulus project in San Antonio by John Tedesco We&#8217;ve been checking how stimulus funds are being spent in Bexar County, and one of the interesting things we&#8217;ve learned is how money for some projects still hasn&#8217;t been spent, more than a year after the Recovery Act became law. 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