Botched Thrasher Group consulting bid costs Streetsboro over $30,000 more than expected

Sticker shock in Streetsboro didn’t stop city leaders from voting unanimously Monday to give $49,990 to The Thrasher Group, a West Virginia project management firm, to prepare a construction and design plan for a 1,200-capacity outdoor amphitheater.

Streetsboro has already paid some $20,000 for a conceptual design for the amphitheater. The city had budgeted almost $18,000 for the construction and design plan, only to learn that The Thrasher Group employee who wrote the original bid had been let go “for several reasons and for providing low fees and requesting change orders as a common practice.”