Ray's cronies have "Madoff" with many dollars from substandard work. One of the town's trucks had the hood and door replaced because an attachment that is driven by hydraulics was not working properly . I told the town that I would do the bodywork on this truck if they agreed to make sure the hydraulics were fixed so that it would not happen again.
Ray ended up having one of his buddies do the work and it cost us in excess of $10,000. The truck came back with a new hood, door, and other various parts. Here comes the bad part. The truck is sitting again with the same damage. This is because they never repaired the source of the problem.
Is Ray going to spend 10K at the shop over and over, or is he going to fix the cause of the problem?
Smitty and myself could help save the town many dollars by using the town garage to do this kind of work in-house.
Is this just one of his Used Car Salesman tactics?