Sewer contractor could earn $18 million over 12 years
A firm owned by the finance chairman of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s reelection effort could collect up to $18 million over 12 years for work on a 2014 county sewer-system contract, according to information released this week.
G-T Construction Group, owned by veteran county contractor Ralph Garcia-Toledo, is one of 14 subcontractors for CH2M Hill, which in 2014 won a $139 million agreement with Miami-Dade to supervise a costly rerouting of treated wastewater currently pumped into the Atlantic Ocean.
CH2M Hill, an engineering and project-management firm based in Englewood, Colorado, declared G-T Construction’s fees in the project to be “trade secrets” when responding to a public-records request from the Miami Herald in June. The company marked out financial information when it turned over the document, which county attorneys had declared a public record.
The Miami Herald objected to the redactions and threatened legal action over access to the documents. After extended negotiations and discussions, CH2M Hill this week provided access to the original contract. On Thursday, a reporter reviewed an unredacted version, which was signed in 2015.
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And local governments are laden with it.
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Just so no one thinks otherwise
