Now this should be disturbing. HUD found some problems on how Tom spent HUD money. HUD suspended Hammond, stopped a senior citizens project from being built last year.
Now Close to $70,000 was spent on rehabbing this property. Follows is a link to HUD's report.
Tom will have to tear this building down to destroy the evidence. How does the McDermott administration explain putting $70,000 into a building and having to tear it down?
Tom, ...
[color=#800000]Sweet!
You know how Tom McDermott Jr puts his name on everything in town, right? Well Tom took down the sign on this Hammond Rehab which used Federal Tax Dollars.
I wonder who did the work on this project? My bet they are part of the friends and family plan. I wonder if you'd find the name of the owner, or another relative making a Campaign contribution?
Quote:
http://www.hudoig.gov/Audit_Reports/2012-CH-1009.pdfIssue Date: August 3, 2012
Audit Report Number: 2012-CH-1009
TO: Forrest Jones, Program Center Coordinator, Office of Public Housing, 5HPH
//signed//
FROM: Kelly Anderson, Regional Inspector General for Audit, 5AGA
SUBJECT: The Hammond Housing Authority, Hammond, IN, Did Not Administer Its Recovery Act Grants in Accordance With Recovery Act, HUD’s, and Its Own Requirements
Enclosed are the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) final results of the audit of the Hammond Housing Authority’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Public Housing Capital Fund stimulus formula and competitive grants.
HUD Handbook 2000.06, REV-4, sets specific timeframes for management decisions on recommended corrective actions. For each recommendation without a management decision, please respond and provide status reports in accordance with the HUD Handbook. Please furnish us copies of any correspondence or directives issued because of the audit.
The Inspector General Act, Title 5 United States Code, section 8L, requires that OIG post its publicly available reports on the OIG Web site. Accordingly, this report will be posted at
http://www.hudoig.gov.
If you have any questions or comments about this report, please do not hesitate to call me at (312) 913-8684.
I just love the fascia and trip placed on this rehabbed property.
Now this is just outstanding work, outstanding!
No indication of trim being placed on the outside of this window on building.
More outstanding work on the soffit and fascia .
Trim or no door trim, that is the question? Was it ever framed in?
Was there ever trim on the outside of these windows or was it..... just, well you make your own judgement.
Now did this work have a plastic/insulator on the pipe encasing the wire leading into the basement?
Appears windows were never placed in this property. How could it be rehabbed?
This roof was/is a few years old, how in the hell did it deteriorate in the this course of time? Unless... well you finish this statement.
This building is in Hammond located at 537 Hoffman.
Federal Tax dollars, HUD money went into the rehab of this property.
Who rehabbed this building?
Who signed off on its approval?
Does this look like nearly $70,000 of property rehab?
Who would buy this building? And if they did, would they be faced with needed repairs, just after they would move in? Would a rehabbed property be misrepresented, considering this condition, that after the purchase they would need to do major repairs?
It wouldn't qualify for FHA financing!
Is this how Tom spends Federal Tax Dollars, his people had to approve, sign off on this work to get the contractor paid.
Just friggin amazing! Just amazing!
Is this why Tom wants to leave Hammond so badly? Questionable projects like this are surfacing all over Hammond!
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