It All Adds Up
The district purchases substantial amounts goods and services. In 2005, the Board submitted to the state a plan to spend $5,362,620 for these expenditures.
A significant portion,$3,125,986 is budgeted for services.
Purchased Professional & Technical Services - $506,561
Purchased Property Services - $710,475
Other Purchased Services - $1,908,950
According to the district policy 610 - Purchases Subject To Bid , "It is the policy of the Board to obtain bids for products and services where such bids are required by law or may result monetary savings to the school district."
Goods and services that are cost between $4,000 and $10,000 can be submitted in writing or by telephone.
Records must be kept of the vendors submissions.
According to the Board at a public meeting, they did not bid out the architect's fee of $39,000 for the new synthetic track.
The solicitor and Board President Robert A. Heckman, asserted services are exempt from the bidding process.
Their statements conflict with district Policy 610.
The school board has the fiscal obligation to carefully scrutinize all expenditures regardless of amount because it all can add up to millions of local tax dollars.
2 Comments:
Yes, they must put out bids and need to be constantly hounded about this. If someone has a school code book, it is right in there. In the past we have had to read the code to them to get the attention of the Board, Solicitor and newspapers covering the meetings.
They've gotten away with these kinds of improprieties for such a long time, they have been quite arrogrant in their actions. Let's stop them now, once and for all.
Those services are salaries of personnel.
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