DOGE lists Boyers, East Butler leases among terminations
The Department of Government Efficiency will save $749,773 with the cancellation of three annual leases for Office of Personnel Management locations in Butler County, according to the department’s website on Wednesday, March 5.
Two leases related the Boyers location and another lease related to an East Butler location were included on a list of 748 lease terminations recently posted to the department’s website.
The space in Boyers is larger than the space included in the leases that are being terminated, County Commissioner Kim Geyer explained in an email Wednesday.
“The underground mine is not closing. The underground mine is a private corporation. OPM is a tenant of the mine,” she said.
She continued to say that OPM rents more space than what is listed in the leases that are terminated.
She said she was told people are not being laid off.
Related to Boyers, the website indicates a total savings of $526,052 for a lease that cost $161,862 annually for 11,500 square-feet, and a total savings of $156,900 for another lease that cost $48,277 annually for 3,450 square-feet.
The Office of Personnel Management has a facility in Iron Mountain, 1137 Branchton Road, Boyers.
Related to East Butler, the website indicates a total savings of $66,821 for a lease that annually costs $160,369 for 13,994 square-feet in real estate.
OPM’s East Butler location is along Grant Avenue.
DOGE touts that the nearly 750 lease terminations — in total — will eliminate 9,587,384 square feet of real estate and save about $468 million.
According the website, the lease terminations come via “Mass Mod,” which means multiple contracts were changed at once.
In addition to the lease terminations, the grants associated with the Butler County facilities at the same costs savings were listed as terminated on DOGE’s website Wednesday.
In total, DOGE’s website lists 6,289 grant terminations totaling about $15 billion in savings. The website indicates that descriptions related to the lease terminations are forthcoming.
This article was adjusted March 5 to clarify comments made by Geyer.
