Port of Tacoma Commissioner Connie Bacon Thursday questioned the necessity of the port spending more than $476,000 planning the reroofing of three port buildings.
Bacon, who in recent months has taken issue with port fees paid to outside consulting firms. said she found such an expenditure high for what should be fairly straightforward jobs.
“I don’t get it why we have to spend another half million dollars planning for roofing jobs,” she said at a Thursday port commission meeting.
Dakota Chamberlain, the port’s director of engineering, said consultants are needed to draw up specifications so that the port could take …