Bolt takes it further, taxpayers are paying 10 times the normal cost for the school buildings.....the voters need to voice their concerns, and get it out in the media... Gilliard needs to be made responsible.....and stop this rorting.....of your money........... extract................
BUILDERS? mark-ups, management fees and multi-layered bureaucracy are hugely inflating the cost of work under the Building the Education Revolution program, critics say.
Parents and principals have raised concerns that some projects are costing up to 10 times more than regular construction.
Quantity surveyors say a quality one- or two-level commercial building would cost about $2100 a square metre.
At Orange Grove Public School, in Lilyfield, a 25-square-metre canteen is being built for $550,000, or $22,000 a square metre.
Kangaroo Valley Public School has received a 169-square-metre library for $850,000, or $5029 a square metre, and Berridale Public School in the Southern Highlands received a quote for a prefabricated library also amounting to $850,000, or $5660 a square metre.
You know you can get six McMansions for what the Rudd Government is spending on one prefabricated library, and four for the price of just one of Rudd?s small canteens. In fact, for what Rudd spends on one canteen, Jennings can build you two of these - the kitchens included, and with enough left over for a new school minibus.
