NJ SCC Annual Report III

Every time I look at the NJ Schools Construction Corporation annual report, I get more and more perturbed. Here's another interesting fact I extracted from the data, showing what a serious problem we have.
The average school construction project for the 2004-05 school year took 17.9 months, which sounds pretty reasonable. Break them down by what organizations managed them, however, and the difference is startling. The 355 projects managed by the districts averaged 17.1 months to complete, while the 24 projects completed by SCC took an average of 29.4 months. That's more than a year longer than the locally managed jobs. The table below lays out the average project length (in months) by completion date.

Year	Month	Districts	SCC	Grand Total
2004	Jul	13.1	29.3	13.7
	Aug	16.2	28.5	17.3
	Sep	19.2	26.1	20.9
	Oct	21.8		21.8
	Nov	17.0	28.6	18.8
	Dec	18.9	29.5	19.6
2005	Jan	11.5	31.4	12.0
	Feb	17.9	30.1	18.5
	Mar	16.3		16.3
	Apr	18.9	33.1	19.3
	May	17.9	42.8	18.5
	Jun	19.3	31.7	21.5
Grand Total		17.1	29.4	17.9

So, not only is NJ SCC incapable of estimating or controlling costs, but it apparently is also incapable of completing its jobs in a reasonable amount of time.

The SCC must be closed. The people of New Jersey have poured far too much money into this sink hole.

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