Wednesdav. December 6.1978
University Daily Kansan
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State charged with avoiding debt
By DAN WINTER
STAN REPORTER
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A spokesman for a Kansas City, Mo., construction firm chirped the state of Kansas yesterday with trying to impress the company at a state owe it.
The spokesman, Bernard Gram, said the state was trying to get out of paying the money by saying that his company, Thomas Construction Co., was responsible for alleged construction deficiencies at Orland College at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The charge came after testimony Thursday by a special prosecutor hired by the state to study alleged deficiencies in state buildings.
The prosecutor, James Eisenbrand,
Overland Park, told the special legislative committee on building construction that a
building near the site of a former
that the building was structurally unsewed.
THAT TESTIMONY has added to the long-standing arguments between the state and contractors about Med Center construction.
In a prepared statement, Gram said his company had performed all of its work on the building with the state's approval. He said that after the work was completed, a team from the district architect's office inspected the building and deemed it in
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'Now, after two years following the completion of the project, the state, for the first time, is making complaints that come as a complete surprise to us. Thomas has, in fact, taken an active role against the state with regard to this project, and apparently the recent ill-founded complaints by the state are nothing more than an attempt on the part of the state to contrain a counterclimber in an effort to avoid the death of him and thereby delay the Thomas," Gram said in the statement.
EISENBRANDT TOLD the committee that problems in the building included sloping floors, fire code violations and problems with the building's elevators.
Eisenbann said he had hired a consulting firm to make a complete study of the deficiencies. That firm is the same one that helped the state of Louisiana recover $42 million in damages from contractors and constructed the New Orleans Superdome.
This is not the first time that the state has
been the alleged defendant to the
company in Ecuador's enforcement suit.
Eisenbrandt's testimony was preceded by a letter sent to the construction company in October threatening legal action if he could correct certain deficiencies within 60 days.
GRAM SAID that since then, the state had
backed off of several its charges. Apparently, he said, the state discovered that several of its charges were not the fault of Thomas Co.
"In fact," Gram said, "the state itself now admits that several of its complaints and charges which it made against our work and our company were improper."
Vincent Cool, acting state architect, said other contractors were being held responsible by the state for the alleged theft of equipment. Cool did not name the other companies.
Thomas Co. and two other contracting firms, Trug-Nichols Inc., Kansas City, Kan, and Evans Electrical Construction Company, were awarded from the state in 1977 to compensate for money they spent because of inaccurate architectural drawings. The 1978 Kansas Legislature postponed payment of the company because of the companies received payment.
LAST DECEMBER, the state filed suit against the architectural firm of Marshall and Brown-Silderix for $20,000 to cover damages the state said it had incurred when it had to repay the contracting firms for damage caused by the negligence in drawing the building's plans.
Orr-Major was the focal point of a 1974 state architectural kickback case in which 24 defendants were indicted for bribery conspiracy.
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TODAY: WEDNESDAY FORUM "WE will at 11:45 a.m. to 12:04 a.m. Audience. An American Civil Liberties Union representative will discuss incidents in Skokie. CENTRE CHARMEN will attend 3:30 p.m. in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Union.
TONIGHT! There will be a CARLILLON RECITAL by Albert Gerken at 7, KU SAILING CLUB will meet at 7 in Pinebars Bldg. at 8, University of Michigan at 7 in the Walnut Room of the Union. PRE-NURSING CLUB will meet at 7 in the Council Room of the Union. SCIENCE FICTION CLUB will meet at 7 in the Pine Bldg. at 8, University of Michigan. RADIOACTIVE FREE KANSAS will meet at 7:30 in the Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St. FACULTY RECITAL by Charles Hogs, double bassist, and Swarthout Hall of Muhwall Hall.
TOMORROW: UNIVERSITY COUNCIL will meet at 3:30 p.m. in Room 105 of Blake Hall. GERMAN SINGING CLUB will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Union. GERMAN CLUB will meet at 4:30 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Union. STUDENT SENIENCE will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Union. SUABRIDGE will meet at 7 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Union. COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the International Room of the Union. ENGLISH LECTURE at 8 p.m. in the International Room of the Union. Casraige will speak on "Trends in Hardy Biography." A CLASSICS RECEPTION will be held at 8:30 p.m. in the English Room of the Union.
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