RFP Staff
♦ In a recent FOIA request, Rowan Free Press learned that SFL+A stood to make $1,214,525 off designing, bidding, and administering the consolidated West Rowan elementary school. A total of 60% of that fee is contingent upon the project moving forward into the construction drawings, bidding, and final completion phases. This means that the SFL+A staff person at last week’s public hearing stood to loose $727,715 for his company if he could not persuade the crowd that the school and location was indeed a good idea.
This is the same company that is recommending the closure of several rural schools, and the busing of those students inward to the I-85 corridor, in order to generate enough pressure to justify them building an additional school in the future, which would generate another $1.2M fee for the company.
Two new schools would total $2.4M in architect fees real dollars that could go a long way toward maintenance at existing rural schools where PTA’s have had to raise funds for items that should have been covered under the school budget, including new playgrounds.
We have to hand it to SFL+A. They know how to line up future business.
