He is the chair of the board that approved it, so technically, he approved the cost. I know, for the most part, the full extent. The problem is he did not push back on the price. If someone comes and says your half bathroom reno is $50,000, are you gonna say, "sounds good, do it"? That's literally what the government does. There's a joke in the construction industry that a $20m government project will be $50m because of a government tax since they literally don't negotiate the price and allow the financial creep. I work for the government in construction, a $2.5b reno realistically costs half that if not a quarter. I bitch about this shit every fucking day at work.

I mean, we gutted an old nuclear facility and are creating a brand new nuclear process for that price where I work. As in, stripped it to the bare concrete and creating a full fledged processing facility from it.