Stockton’s City Council has voted to increase spending on three contracts for construction on its New City Hall by about $1.1 million total.
Yet in recent months, the city increased spending on the same contracts by almost triple that amount, without a public vote or discussion.
The most recent vote illustrates how a system of unseen spending first revealed in a Stocktonia investigation in September continues to drive up the project’s cost — even as a top city official publicly acknowledged the construction expenses are far out of line…