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Good point! That's something I'll keep in mind!

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Do you have his phone number?

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Pros:

Price Quality of work

Cons:

Speed (he’s often booked up a few weeks)

I agree the whole thing seems very strange. I don't contend to know the legal situation here around who has oversight of what, but the library clearly thinks the council has no legal grounds to audit them directly (but a 3rd party auditor would be allowed), while the council does. Sounds like a judge needs to weigh in, which is unfortunate because all this does is waste more taxpayer money.

It also sounds like the library CEO, who was inaccurately portrayed by both the original complainant and the auditor, did her best to answer the auditor's questions in spite of the auditor not being cooperative in response.

It seems like a lot of the problems in this situation could have been solved by the "investigators" who "staked out" the event attempting to actually enter the event rather than drawing conclusions from the parking lot. If they were turned away, it's not a public event and there is something worth investigating. If they were allowed in, the event is perfectly fine by library policy.

What type of work?

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Loitering is neither imaginary nor a "crime." However, loitering (meaning "standing around in a certain place for a prolonged amount of time with no purpose") is bad for business. People blame Amazon for the death of enclosed malls. However, strip malls are doing fine (just drive around Columbia to see what I mean). So what is killing enclosed malls? One major thing is large amounts of unruly youth who make it inconvenient or uncomfortable for actual paying customers.

Don't get me wrong, I hung out at malls when I was a teen. However, that was literally during a different millennium, back when mass shootings were rare. This is a different day and requires a different approach.

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Might help to mention what sort of work you're looking to have done.

"We investigated ourselves and determined that we didn't do anything wrong."

The whole thing seems weird and now outsized. The library gets most of its funds from the county but flat out refused to cooperate with the audit. They basically said, "Just trust us; we're fine." That's … not great accountability for county funds.

But the auditor's report had weird wording around people's race. I think, reading it charitably, the auditor merely meant to draw the causal connections: "The library was closed to the public for a private event (at a time it would normally have been open); the event was for a historically-Black sorority whose members wear white dresses to formal events; there were Black women in white dresses going in; therefore the only people who entered the library were members of the private organization." But they didn't explicitly mention about half of that, so they came off as bringing up race out of nowhere. On top of that, from my perspective the issue is with the library's use of county resources, not the particular organization holding the event, so a lot of the details about the sorority don't really seem relevant.

The auditor really needs to do a better job of approaching race, especially in a county as diverse as Howard. But the library's behavior still seems off to me.

Oh man. Sorry to hear that. I did see At Speed motors in Elk Ridge has recently begun offering PPF and ceramic. I might try them next time I need that done. They look very reputable and I saw them do a video with the Porsche Club of America folks who are based out of Columbia.

Wait, that's a thing? Which Dunkin location are we discussing? Whenever I order for drive through pickup at Oakland Mills I wait in line like everyone else.

Used to go every weekend in 2003-2005, it was def the place to be. How has it changed since?

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I've had a bad experience there with ceramic coating. There was some hazing in one spot that should be covered by warranty (I had come back each year and paid for a hand wash in order to keep the warranty up to date), but they were rude and dismissive

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Hi! I may have someone that will work for this. Sent you a chat.

My advice is not to trust any estimate you get over the phone. They will show up on moving day and the price will be higher. And it's not the fault of the crew that's there. It's just their shady sales tactic because at that point you are at their mercy.

You still got asbestos to worry about 😈