Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
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That building was purchased to add some additional<br />
space to the embassy about two or three years ago,<br />
maybe three years ago, maybe longer than that. It<br />
could be three and a half. I can't recall. And we<br />
are in the process with joining its people with a<br />
series <strong>of</strong> renovations and rehabs going on.<br />
So there was a small fire that occurred in<br />
a fan coil, which was just a subcontractor mistake<br />
and that was just what it was. And no injuries to<br />
people, no destruction <strong>of</strong> any property and it is<br />
just a matter <strong>of</strong> making that correction. So, if you<br />
heard anything about a Rome story, that's what it<br />
was about.<br />
Contracting and procurement is not,<br />
underscore not, done by OBO, it's independently by<br />
another bureau. Iraq procurement is done not by<br />
OBO, but by another independent bureau. The<br />
Belmopan build to lease, I just mentioned that and<br />
how it got to be a build to lease because there was<br />
no housing and the embassy was relocated, a decision<br />
made many years ago, inward, in order to get them<br />
out <strong>of</strong> the wet area.<br />
And the name change to OBO, which was<br />
announced I guess three or four days into Secretary<br />
Powell's tenure, was a decision that he made. He<br />
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