Here is the rest of the story. Bid estimates submitted last year to the state Division of Facilities Construction and Management by general contractor Okland Construction for the entire project totaled $45 million.
This year, when lawmakers approved the funding, the total bid estimates from Okland were about $48.5 million, an increase of nearly $3.5 million because of the one-year delay.
Adjusting as we go: Yvette Diaz, director of the state Department of Community and Culture, announced in March that the ethnic affairs office would develop a 100-day plan for minority communities that would be unveiled in June.
She was premature on both counts.
At a June 29 meeting with ethnic affairs councils, the 100-day plan was expanded to a 1,000-day plan that won't be unveiled until September.
Spokeswoman Claudia Nicano said the June deadline was unrealistic. She wasn't sure about the 1,000-day plan, but said the original 100-day implementation-idea would be expanded to at least a year.
A good guy: Patti Horrocks reports that on July 7 at 12:07 p.m., two women wearing convention-type name tags around their necks exited a bus at 150 W. 500 South and were running across the street to avoid traffic when the older woman fell hard on her face.
A motorist stopped, jumped out of his car, helped the woman up, walked her to the curb and waited around for several minutes to make sure she was OK.
Horrocks doesn't know his name, but he was driving a white BMW, license plate 529NCW.
A pioneer: Pete and Rachel Taylor, as mentioned in Monday's column, were grateful to Doug Driessen and Chris Tolsma, managers of CycleSmith and Bingham Cyclery, respectively, for their roles in detecting that their bike brought in for repairs was stolen.
They also owe a debt of thanks to Sherman T. Hunter, an insurance agent and grandfather whose persistence in 1973 to get a bill passed in the Legislature led to bikes being inspected and registered. It was the registration requirement that made it possible for Driessen and Tolsma to identify the bike and its owner.
Hunter's pleas for such a law were largely ignored until he finally got then-Republican Rep. Georgia B. Peterson to pay attention. It was late in the session, but Peterson used her clout as assistant majority whip to push it through in the last days and Gov. Cal Rampton signed it.
So thank you, Sherman T. Hunter, wherever you are.
Historical site? Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce communications director Michael Degroote may have an overdeveloped sense of ego.
A large, detailed Salt Lake County map, which the chamber distributes to businesses and other interested parties that includes all the residential streets and subdivisions in the county and designates places of special interest, has a red dot clearly marked in a residential area in West Valley City.
That is Degroote's house.
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