California State University Auxiliary Services $1,735,000.00

Oh boy, another research grant! This one is for another "energy and sustainability" project, a.k.a green energy and environmentalism.

These projects exist to do 2 things:

1. Create jobs for people who have no way to make a living in the Private Sector, and:

2. Furnish the government with more data which will translate into more restrictive laws to govern our lives.

Whether any meaningful jobs are even created by this malarkey is immaterial. Your government has decided, against your wishes, that spending millions on this is necessary (and a payback to the Environmental Lobby which donates to campaign war chests), and you are expected to foot the bill no matter how much it costs, and regardless of whether anything useful is accomplished.

ACCO Engineering, Inc $8534269.00

Infrastructure, infrastructure infrastructure!

ACCO Engineering scores a lot of contracts.

Most of what YOUR 8 and a half million was spent on AIR CONDITIONING... guess we need to keep up with those newer modernized systems. Gotta be sure we keep those hard working underpaid government workers nice and comfortable, right?

The big question is... after you total up the millions spent on the upgrades, when will the savings realized from these newer systems pay for themselves, especially when funded with BORROWED money repaid at high interest?

Your 8 million dollar investment created a reported  79 jobs. Since it's for mostly for construction and renovation, not all those jobs were permanent. Hooray for expensive temporary jobs!