The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is awaiting a work schedule of how the remaining $15 million, which was left from the $20 million allocated to the council last year for rehabilitation work on City Hall, is to be spent by the City Engineer’s Department. This is partly the reason why the building remains in its current deteriorating state.
Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green said on Friday that $20 million was allocated to the council last year for repairs to the building but only $5 million was spent. He went on to say that the $5 million was not spent properly, and they are awaiting a report on the matter, but that the engineer has done some work on the windows. “The money is still there but we are waiting on the engineers to put a project proposal,” he said.
Green added that when the engineer began to do work on the building he had been instructed that he should start with