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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Canon City Bristles At The Loss Of DOC HQ

By TRACY HARMON
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
CANON CITY - City officials have joined the fray with Pueblo in crying foul about the Colorado Department of Corrections selection of Colorado Springs for its future headquarters building.

Canon City Manager Steve Rabe launched a no-holds-barred protest Tuesday by penning a two-page letter to James Ramsey, DOC facility management services director.

Rabe claims the DOC's decision to accept the proposal submitted by Mortenson Development Inc. is contrary to standard practice. He urges the DOC to take another look using evaluation criteria contained in the May 6 request for proposals.

"The city believes both offers scored almost equally up to the point that the DOC chose to arbitrarily, without notification to include travel costs as part of its evaluation," Rabe wrote. "Moreover, it appears the DOC failed to correctly analyze the contents of each offer in order to accurately and fairly evaluate each in accordance with its request for proposals."
Pueblo Chieftain

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Canon City already has 13 prisons and many functions of DOC are at Territorial. There is no need for them to complain.
However, there was no reason for DOC to even think of moving their headquarters for the very reason that they rejected both proposals - travel. As usual, the overwhelming size of the department at 6500 employees leads to mistakes such as this mis-guided proposal.
If half the prisons were closed and those prisoners were returned to well funded and well supervised local drug rehab in and out patient facilities, under state medical supervision, that would make more sense and cost the taxpayor less money...but DOC never makes any changes nor sense.
mpc

Anonymous said...

Your right on MPC, however the peoples reps,(the legislature) needs to take a close look at how DOC is running the Colorado prisons, I would give them a failing mark for the entire system which is corrupt from top to bottom. The system, (DOC) could easily cut in half with no threat to public safety. Just think at the amount of money that the state could save. djw

Anonymous said...

The city officials of Canon City are all ignorant and are boasting huge ego trips. This is creating major problems with the system. Nobody wants to bring new business to this city. That's why I moved.The cit administrator and city engineer are completely lost because of their ego trips.

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