RGF weighs in for KRQE Channel 13 story on wasteful Keller Administration remodel

The City of Albuquerque has been remodeling its offices, but according to the City’s Inspector General: thousands of Albuquerque taxpayer dollars have gone to waste amid a nearly three-year renovation project at old City Hall. You can check out the full story from KRQE along with RGF president Paul Gessing’s comments here, but according to the IG, the city paid for a design that they’ve since asked to change at least two more times. If the city approves that third plan, the IG claims the design process will have cost Albuquerque at least $55,000.

This is all typical behavior of Mayor Tim Keller’s Administration, but what is perhaps most shocking about the report is Keller’s utter disregard for the Inspector General and their findings. Keller’s administration put out the following statement, “This Inspector General lost credibility long ago, having been repeatedly cited by her own independent oversight board for misrepresentation without legal basis, lack of peer review, investigation standard violations, and clear bias—reducing her role to little more than that of an opinion writer.”

While Keller is putting on a show of trying to make it appear that his eight years in office have been a success and that the City is thriving, there can be no doubt that it is not and that the City is being managed in a corrupt way with myriad failures. As the Mayor’s statement makes clear, nothing is going to change or improve by giving Keller a third term.