Thursday, March 11, 2021

Inside DPZ Co-Design's Emails and Text Messages: Part V--Does DPZ STILL Think "Everyone" is Their Client?!?


DPZ Co Design team members apparently still believe "everyone" is their client, and not the BCC.  Hopefully their lawyer can explain to them that this is a flawed, inaccurate assessment.


How can a firm working for the county to implement county goals and objectives feel that "everyone" is their client?  If everyone is someone's client--why do we have a contract with DPZ?  Why does DPZ send invoices to the county? It's ridiculous, preposterous, and inaccurate for them to say this.

It's because "everyone" is NOT DPZ's Client, the County, the Board of County Commissioners is DPZ's sole client on the OLF-8 Master Planning project.  And one would assume these folks would know this, but apparently DPZ team members Mike Weich and Marina Khoury continue to cling to the flawed notion that everyone is their client--based upon new text messages provided late last week.  It really is astonishing.

Late last month, I asked our attorney for her opinion--- which she quickly provided.  

“Pursuant to your ask, it is my opinion that privity of contract exists solely between the BCC and DPZ.  The BCC is a legal entity and even though the BCC is a board elected by the public, the BCC is the actual client and not the public.  I certainly understand that sounds counterintuitive, but hopefully the board is supporting the wants of its constituency.”

It is odd that this even has to be discussed and defined for Khoury and Weich, but nevertheless it apparently must be reinforced again.  Over and over.

I can only assume this notion of "everyone" is the client is a defense mechanism they are utilizing to rationalize their actions when they were notified of movements to undermine and embarrass their sole client here, the BCC--and DPZ did NOT notify their client in real time as .  I mean, if everyone and every citizen is your "client" yeah, you don't need to notify anyone of anything I guess.

Real life doesn't work this way though, and that argument is feckless and ridiculous....



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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 11, 2021 at 12:50 PM

    This is why Escambia County will always be the lowest ranked county in the state.

    To keep quibbling over such nonsense. Get over yourself...

    So glad I put Pensacola in my rear view.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 11, 2021 at 10:58 PM

    Yes, we have a representative constitutional republic, not a direct democracy nor mob rule.

    Amazing to watch all the people that don't seem to respect that and tie themselves in knots thinking otherwise.

    “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

    The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;

    but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,

    and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.“

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