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## Slide 1 OVERSIGHT REPORT Paul E. Joseph Stadium & Sports Complex A Contractual, Financial & Timeline Review July 2025 — April 2026 PREPARED FOR Senator-at-Large Angel Bolques Jr. 36th Legislature of the Virgin Islands ## Slide 2 01 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Record Speaks Plainly On August 5, 2025, the Department of Public Works confirmed to this Committee that the Paul E. Joseph Stadium would be completed by December 25, 2025. The contract record tells a different story. Based on Several Change Orders 5 CHANGE ORDERS Approved June 2025 – April 2026 554+ CALENDAR DAYS ADDED Cumulative time extensions $557K DISBURSED July 2025 – January 2026 Jul 2, 2026 CURRENT TARGET Per Change Order No. 10 The project was not completed by December 25, 2025. It was extended, funded, and actively executed into 2026. PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 2 / 20 ## Slide 3 02 THE REPRESENTATION What the Office Was Told AUGUST 5, 2025 “The project remains on track for completion by December 25, 2025.” — John Wessel and Derek A. Gabriel Commissioner, Department of Public Works THE PROBLEM This assurance was given six weeks after a 180-day extension had already been approved on the same contract. THE CONTRACT RECORD SHOWS June 27, 2025 — Change Order No. 1 approved, adding 180 days to Supplemental Contract No. 2. August 5, 2025 — DPW nevertheless confirmed December 25, 2025 as the completion date to this Committee PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 3 / 20 ## Slide 4 03 FINANCIAL SNAPSHOT Funding Report — As of January 31, 2026 Source: Virgin Islands Public Finance Authority, letter dated January 31, 2026 $32.45M TOTAL BUDGET $26.35M EXPENDED $6.10M AVAILABLE FUNDING SOURCES Funding Source Budget Expended Available Authorization Series 2003 Gross Receipt Tax Bonds $1,150,000 $1,150,000 $0 Bd. Res. 03-013 & 15-012 Series 2014C Gross Receipt Tax Bonds $17,500,000 $17,453,163 $46,837 Act 7453, Sec. 2(D) Community Facilities Trust Account $480,000 $282,187 $197,813 Acts 7990 & 8009 Community Facilities Trust Account $5,124,000 $902,025 $4,221,975 Act 8781, Sec. 1 Internal Revenue Matching Fund $8,200,000 $6,566,679 $1,633,321 Act 8326, Sec. 1 TOTALS $32,454,000 $26,354,054 $6,099,946 PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 4 / 20 ## Slide 5 04 SCOPE EXPANSION A Project That Grew in Cost and Scope The PEJ Project is not simply one delayed contract. It is an original award expanded by two supplemental contracts that together added more than $9.2 million and introduced additional timelines, parties, and payment flows. ORIGINAL CONTRACT ~$20.0M Design/Build — Paul E. Joseph Stadium & Sports Complex SUPPLEMENTAL CONTRACT NO. 1 $4.10M C003ASPRC15 — GEC, LLC (Additional Work) SUPPLEMENTAL CONTRACT NO. 2 $5.12M PO-24-810-8102-688 — GEC, LLC (Additional Work) FINDING The project did not merely slip its schedule — it grew. Two supplemental contracts added roughly $9.22M and created parallel timelines that are now extended independently through separate change orders. PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 5 / 20 ## Slide 6 01 BEFORE THE REPRESENTATION Change Order No. 1 — June 27, 2025 SUPPLEMENTAL CONTRACT NO. 2 +180 CALENDAR DAYS ADDED COMMENCEMENT June 29, 2025 NEW COMPLETION December 25, 2025 CONTRACT VALUE $5,124,000 (unchanged) APPROVED BY DPW / DSPR / DPP REASON CITED “Increase in contract time by 180 calendar days to allow for additional time to complete the project.” SIGNIFICANCE By the time this Committee was told on July 18, 2025, that the stadium was on track for December 25, 2025, a 180-day extension had already been formally approved on this very contract six weeks earlier. The December 25, 2025, date was itself the product of an extension. PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 6 / 20 ## Slide 7 02 EXTENDED BEFORE DEADLINE Change Order No. 2 — December 23, 2025 SUPPLEMENTAL CONTRACT NO. 2 +96 CALENDAR DAYS ADDED COMMENCEMENT December 26, 2025 NEW COMPLETION April 1, 2026 CONTRACT VALUE $5,124,000 (unchanged) APPROVED BY DPW / DSPR / DPP REASON CITED “Increase in contract time by 96 calendar days to allow for additional time to complete the project.” SIGNIFICANCE Approved on December 23, 2025 — two days before the contract was supposedly to be complete. This is the first formal, written break from the December 25, 2025 completion date DPW confirmed to the Office in August. PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 7 / 20 ## Slide 8 03 THE ADMINISTRATIVE ADMISSION Change Order No. 9 — December 23, 2025 CONTRACT C003ASPRC15 — GEC, $4.1M +96 CALENDAR DAYS ADDED COMMENCEMENT December 26, 2025 NEW COMPLETION March 31, 2026 / April 1, 2026 CONTRACT VALUE $4,100,000 (unchanged) APPROVED BY DPW / DSPR / DPP REASON CITED “...to allow the Government to pay Contractor’s Subcontractors and/or Vendors via electronic payments, rather than joint payments, in order to expedite payments...” SIGNIFICANCE This change order admits, in writing, that part of the delay is tied to Government payment operations — not only contractor performance. Delay is now officially linked to administrative and financial processes within the Executive Branch. PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 8 / 20 ## Slide 9 04 PAST THE REVISED DEADLINE Change Order No. 3 — April 14, 2026 SUPPLEMENTAL CONTRACT NO. 2 +91 CALENDAR DAYS ADDED COMMENCEMENT April 2, 2026 NEW COMPLETION July 2, 2026 CONTRACT VALUE $5,124,000 (unchanged) APPROVED BY DPW / DSPR / DPP REASON CITED “Increase in contract time by 91 calendar days to allow for additional time to complete the project.” SIGNIFICANCE Approved thirteen days after the April 1, 2026 completion date itself had passed. The project was not complete on its second revised deadline either. The justification again references payments to subcontractors and vendors. PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 9 / 20 ## Slide 10 05 THE CURRENT POSITION Change Order No. 10 — April 14, 2026 CONTRACT C003ASPRC15 — GEC, $4.1M +91 CALENDAR DAYS ADDED COMMENCEMENT April 2, 2026 NEW COMPLETION July 2, 2026 CONTRACT VALUE $4,100,000 (unchanged) APPROVED BY DPW / DSPR / DPP REASON CITED “Increase in contract time by 91 calendar days to allow for additional time to complete the project.” SIGNIFICANCE This is the current contractual target. July 2, 2026 is now more than six months past the date DPW represented to the Office in August 2025 — and there is no contractual guarantee it will be the last extension. PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 10 / 20 ## Slide 11 10 CUMULATIVE DELAY Days Added to Complete the Stadium TOTAL DAYS ADDED 554 calendar days (≈ 18 months) Across five approved change orders June 2025 — April 2026 PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 11 / 20 ## Slide 12 11 PROJECT TIMELINE Representation vs. Reality June 27, 2025 CO #1: +180 days Aug 5, 2025 DPW: “On track Dec 25” Dec 23, 2025 COs #2 & #9: +192 Dec 25, 2025 Promised Completion Apr 14, 2026 COs #3 & #10: +182 Jul 2, 2026 Current Target Each red marker is a promise. Each gold marker is an extension. The pattern is visible. PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 12 / 20 ## Slide 13 12 FOLLOW THE MONEY Payments Continued Through the Delay Disbursement activity from July 2025 through January 2026 confirms the project was not paused, mothballed, or idle. It was actively funded across the same months the completion timeline was slipping. TOTAL DISBURSED $557,091 July 2025 — January 2026 Across the prime contractor, the Government, and at least five vendors/subcontractors. PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 13 / 20 ## Slide 14 13 PAYMENT BREAKDOWN Who Was Paid, and When PRIME CONTRACTOR GEC, LLC $371,655 07/23/2025 — $55,361.25 07/31/2025 — $69,852.71 07/31/2025 — $134,577.00 09/30/2025 — $10,281.38 09/30/2025 — $21,754.10 11/13/2025 — $50,872.50 01/29/2026 — $24,699.04 SC PE #16 — $4,256.80 GOVERNMENT VI Bureau of Internal Revenue $27,855 07/23/2025 — $2,913.75 07/31/2025 — $3,676.46 07/31/2025 — $7,083.00 09/30/2025 — $541.13 09/30/2025 — $1,144.95 11/13/2025 — $2,677.50 01/29/2026 — $7,164.27 SC PE #16 — $2,653.54 VENDORS & SUBCONTRACTORS Five Separate Entities $157,582 Medley Steel & Supply — $33,087.90 Ferguson Enterprises — $55,737.81 Berls Commercial Supply — $21,459.02 Total Restrooms — $1,137.28 Bond Plumbing Supply — $46,160.41 (Materials flowing onto the site after the Dec. 25 promise date.) PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 14 / 20 ## Slide 15 14 THE JANUARY 2026 EVIDENCE Still Building, One Month After the “Completion” Date January 29, 2026 $143,000+ paid in a single disbursement cycle — more than one month after the promised December 25, 2025 completion date. PROJECT ACTIVE Funds flowing to the prime contractor MATERIALS MOVING Vendors engaged, invoices processed NOT COMPLETE A finished stadium does not need fresh pay cycles PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 15 / 20 ## Slide 16 15 CONTRACTUAL ACCOUNTABILITY Liquidated Damages: A Provision Never Triggered CONTRACT PROVISION $500 per day | liquidated damages Under Contract C003ASPRC15, liquidated damages of $500 per day are available to the Government for failure to meet substantial completion deadlines. Damages may be deducted from payments or collected by the Government. OVERSIGHT CONCERN Because each missed deadline has been followed by an approved time extension, liquidated damages have not been triggered. NO DISTINCTION Change orders do not document whether delays are excusable or non-excusable. NO EVALUATION No record indicates whether liquidated damages were ever assessed before extensions were granted. NO ENFORCEMENT Repeated extensions have effectively reset deadlines and prevented enforcement. PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 16 / 20 ## Slide 17 16 BARRIERS TO OVERSIGHT Information and Access Legislative oversight of this project has been repeatedly delayed — not by disagreement, but by the pace of responses and the absence of confirmed site access. INFORMATION FLOW Updates promised “in a few weeks” Requests for project schedules, progress report updates, and revised completion dates were made but responses have been limited. DPW indicated no further replies would follow until the promised update was ready. SITE ACCESS Requested Aug 2025 • Re-requested Feb 2026 A site visit referenced back to August 2025 was re-requested in February 2026. DPW indicated coordination ongoing and a tentative March visit, but no date has been confirmed in the record. DOCUMENTARY RELIANCE 1,000+ pages produced by contractor The investigative record is heavily supported by contractor-submitted materials (GEC). The majority of detailed schedules, timelines, and internal tracking come from the contractor rather than the agency. PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 17 / 20 ## Slide 18 17 FINDINGS Five Findings the Record Supports 01 TIMELINE DISCREPANCY Publicly represented completion (Dec 25, 2025) diverges from internal contract record, which projects completion into July 2026. 02 EXTENSIONS APPROVED EARLY Change orders dated Dec 23, 2025 were approved two days before the represented completion date itself arrived. 03 CONTINUED FINANCIAL ACTIVITY AMIDST UNDERPERFORMANCE OF CONTRACTOR More than $557,000 disbursed July 2025 – January 2026, including a $143K+ single cycle after the promised deadline. 04 ADMINISTRATIVE DELAYS Change Orders No. 9 and No. 3 cite Government payment processing as a contributing cause of delay. 05 ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM DORMANT $500/day liquidated damages provision exists in the contract but has not been triggered; extensions effectively reset the deadline each time. PAUL E. JOSEPH STADIUM | OVERSIGHT REPORT 18 / 20 ## Slide 19 18 CONCLUSION The Bottom Line The project was not completed by December 25, 2025, and the record shows a troubling pattern of missed deadlines, last-minute extensions that shifted responsibility instead of enforcing it, and continued payments despite clear underperformance. At the same time, the accountability measures already written into the contract were never enforced, allowing delays to continue without consequence or penalties. Five change orders • 554 days added • $557K disbursed • $500/day damages unenforced The record does not speculate — it documents. ## Slide 20 OFFICE OF Senator-at-Large Angel Bolques Jr. 36th LEGISLATURE | VIRGIN ISLANDS Paul E. Joseph Stadium Oversight Report Record compiled from contractual, financial, and legislative correspondence — July 2025 through April 2026.