Nearly 21-hundred people have signed non-disclosure agreements to keep the details about the construction of the new Capital Annex Building in Sacramento, California, secret. Those who signed the NDAs were state lawmakers, staffers, contractors, architects, and others. The project, which in 2018 was estimated to cost 440 million dollars, has ballooned to one-point-two billion with taxpayers footing the bill.
Not much is known about how the money is being allocated for this project, but it recently came to light that five-point-two-million dollars was spent to send Central California granite to Italy to be milled and cut into blocks. When questioned about it, a project spokesperson said it was the cheapest option.