Just weeks after the new John Muir Library Branch in west Windsor held its grand opening, there is a call for the city's new Auditor General to investigate the project's finances.
Howard Weeks is asking for the audit after the project ran $3 million over its original budget and a costly mistake with the sign.
"These are the kind of things that auditor generals do," said Weeks. "Since the information was $3 million off, we have to find out why this happened."
Instead of "Windsor Public Library - John Muir Branch," the original sign said, "John Muir Public Library."
Officials blamed an administrative error, but the cost to fix the mistake was $51,000.
In December 2017, Windsor Public Library CEO Kitty Pope asked for and was granted an increase in funding to renovate the old Firehall on Mill Street into a library branch.
The original cost of the project was estimated at $2.5 million, but Pope said the bill jumped for three reasons; soil conditions under the building, construction costs had gone up since the estimate was made five years previously, and the ageing structure required more work than first thought.
"We're dealing with a heritage building. Anything to do with a structure that is ageing ends up costing more," said Pope at that time.
Weeks said he submitted his request for an audit to city councillors.
Last month, Windsor city council named Christopher O'Connor of Pricewaterhouse Coopers to the auditor general's position.