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Support Requested: UMOM Back to School Drive!
Donations being accepted through August 2, 2019
CFMA Valley of the Sun Members,
Thanks to all that have contributed to the
UMOM Back to School Drive. To date, we have raised a total of $
788.00!
For those members who were unable to attend,
please consider contributing by downloading the contribution form
below
and/or attached.
Contributions are being accepted through
August 2, 2019. The Chapter will purchase school supplies and present
them to UMOM.
Thank you again for your support! Karl
Kortman - Chapter President
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The VA’s billion dollar boondoggle
A long-planned Veterans Affairs hospital being built in Denver, already hundreds of millions of dollars over its $604 million budget, has turned into a billion-dollar boondoggle for the agency. The contractor, Kiewit-Turner, blames the VA for ignoring agreements to submit plans that can be built within budget and has asked a federal board overseeing civilian contract disputes to let the company walk away from the job. Problems with the building emerged in January, when letters between the builder and the VA revealed the project to be running some $200 million over budget, with Kiewit-Turner blaming a pricey design that was only partially completed by the time it entered into the contract. The two sides subsequently agreed — via a handwritten agreement — to build the hospital within the original budget, with the VA in charge of submitting a new, pared-down design reflecting a number of cost-saving measures. But in a July 8 complaint to the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals,
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