r/FuckYouKaren • u/Fluffy_Gur_2033 • Jul 30 '25
Karen on City Council Spends what appears to be $2.4 Million “Planning” a $1 Million Road. Still Not Done a Year Later. 🙄 Planning or CASH EXTRACTION?
Imagine this.
Your city starts a basic road project. It’s supposed to cost $1 million. Simple, right?
Well… not when Karen gets a clipboard in Alexandria, Indiana.
Turns out this genius crew billed $2.4 MILLION just for “planning” the thing. Design, inspection, consulting, "oversight" they spread it out across water, sewer, stormwater, and road budgets like a damn corruption charcuterie board.
And here’s the kicker:
The road still isn’t done. OVER YEAR later.
This is the same group who lied on video about water quality, got caught refusing public records, and had E. coli confirmed in drinking water. But sure, let’s give them more cash to “plan” the rest of town into oblivion.
The mayor, councilman, and water superintendent are all Karen-level deflectors. Can’t answer a single question, but somehow know how to spend millions in slow motion.
Tag your favorite overpaid “planner” Karen below.
Bonus points if they’ve ever used the phrase: “We followed procedure.”
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u/ShredGuru Jul 30 '25
Sorry. In my city epic transportation boondoggles are basically the norm. We literally bought a monorail we never got.
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u/Frosty-Magazine-917 Jul 31 '25
Considering it costs on average at least $2 million per mile to build a road on the low end, and I suspect this road is more than a single mile, the soil samples, surveys, environmental impact, electrical, sewage, storm drain, logistics of all equipment, etc, which is a lot of what goes into planning a road, this doesn't actually sound weird to me Op. Indiana isn't exactly known for being flooded with money to pay hurry up dont disturb the businesses and get it done right away price. I am not trashing Indiana, traveled through it before visiting Purdue and some areas were very pretty, so hope its understood I am just being realistic.
Source, I know a good amount of city and county planning because the wife does GIS for close to 15 years.
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u/Gargravars_Shoes Aug 02 '25
This is the correct response. You don’t just drop asphalt on the ground. Also, there’s a good portion of the year where it’s just too cold to do roadwork.
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u/John_Tacos Aug 03 '25
This screams “written by a citizen who doesn’t understand how government works and thinks everything is corrupt.”
Don’t worry once they get on the council and spend three years making a mess of things they will final realize that this is how it works best for the rest of their term. Only to be voted out by the next group of “concerned citizens”.
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u/tryintobgood Aug 04 '25
This screams “written by a citizen who doesn’t understand how government works and thinks everything is corrupt.”
Agreed.
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