A reader forwarded an email from the US Army Corps of Engineers with the subject line: Real Estate Appraisal Services Sources Sought Notice. Just minutes before the email was sent to us, we'd learned the Army Corps remains open despite the shutdown, by watching a Minnesota House hearing about the impact of federal shutdown on Minnesota's state environmental agencies.
And why were the real estate appraisal services needed?
Here's the email:
From: Castillo, Stayce R CIV USARMY CESWF (USA)
[address redacted]
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 12:52 PM
Subject: Real Estate Appraisal Services Sources Sought Notice
Dear Sir or Ma'am~
Please note that the USACE has posted a Sources Sought notice for the Real Estate Appraisal Services for the Border Wall Project on the FedBizOps website. Additional information can be found at FedBizOps via the following link:
https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USA/COE/DACA63/W9126G-19-R-BI10/list ing.html
Or you can go to WWW.fbo.gov and search for W9126G-19-R-BI10.
Instructions are located in the announcement in FBO. E-mails and phone calls will not be responded to.
If you would prefer to not receive these e-mail updates please reply "stop".
Stayce R. Castillo
Program Specialist
US Army Corps of Engineers
Fort Worth District
BI-PMO
Yes, almost at the very moment (12:45 p.m.) the Minnesota House Environment and Natural Resources Finance Division began hearing about the impact of federal shutdown on Minnesota's state environmental agencies, the Corps of Engineers in Texas sent out an email (12:52 p.m.) seeking contractors for Real Estate Appraisal Services for the Border Wall Project.
Why is the federal government partially shut down?
Because Trump insists that congress fund a wall.
What's a funded agency doing? Looking for paid help to move building the wall forward.
CBS News reported on Monday that Shutdown's damage to economy could exceed $5.7 billion cost of Trump's border wall. We just can't make this copy up.
Photo: The mountainous desert terrain along the Rio Grande is sparsely populated and formidable. While this patch is in a park, somebody's going to have to be paid to appraise property like this. Via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram article, Wall of contention: Most Texans along the border don’t want Trump’s wall, and many doubt it will be built.
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