MCPS not receiving millions in State Aid

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Anonymous wrote:Oddly no one is talking about how the state is just discovering this.

They aren’t. State knew for a year.

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Anonymous wrote:I appreciated hearing Taylor's comments at the beginning of this morning's CIP meeting, and also his response to Julie Yang's question on how he will ensure these errors are not happening in the future (which occurs around minute 56:30):

His answer to Yang’s question was nonsensical. He said he didn’t want to assign blame but admitted that people missed deadlines and were moving too fast. So clearly there are people to blame if both of those things he claimed are true.

I took that to mean he didn't want to name specific people who are no longer at MCPS, but clearly acknowledged that the staff at the time had made these errors.

If it was SOLELY the fault of former staff, he could have laid the blame at their feet without naming them specifically. He’s saying he doesn’t want to assign blame because some of the people involved definitely still work for the system and he doesn’t want to embarrass them or make them nervous.

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All this blabbing but no one knows what actually happened.

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Anonymous wrote:All this blabbing but no one knows what actually happened.

Try reading.
Contract awarded to company that did not pay prevailing wages as required by MD law.
Did not follow law.
Did not qualify for state funding.

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Anonymous wrote:Oddly no one is talking about how the state is just discovering this.

They aren’t. State knew for a year.

🤔 So THAT's why they couldn't mail those damn MCAP reports on time??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All this blabbing but no one knows what actually happened.

+1. Lots of suppositions here, as usual.

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Anonymous wrote:All this blabbing but no one knows what actually happened.

+1. Lots of suppositions here, as usual.

No. You just do not like facts.

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Anonymous wrote:All this blabbing but no one knows what actually happened.

+1. Lots of suppositions here, as usual.

No. You just do not like facts.

We have some facts. We do not have all the facts. People are speculating about many things.

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Anonymous wrote:All this blabbing but no one knows what actually happened.

+1. Lots of suppositions here, as usual.

No. You just do not like facts.

We have some facts. We do not have all the facts. People are speculating about many things.

Not at all

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Anonymous wrote:All this blabbing but no one knows what actually happened.

Try reading.
Contract awarded to company that did not pay prevailing wages as required by MD law.
Did not follow law.
Did not qualify for state funding.

According to your speculation.

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Anonymous wrote:https://mocoshow.com/2024/10/23/mcps-statement-regarding-recommended-fy26-capital-budget-and-amendments-to-the-fy-2025-30-capital-improvements-program/

So this was not a one-time error:

Dating back to 2021, MCPS miscalculated prevailing wage and bid awards across the multiple phases of the project. This error was entirely MCPS’s.

I appreciate that there was a lot more detail here than what was in the board docs, and that Taylor is "supremely disappointed," but I need to know what actions will be taken to remediate this pretty gross failing on the part of multiple individuals and departments. I also think the BOE failed here too. But since they don't have independent staff, relying on the elected board members to be sharp on this stuff is unrealistic.

The Board of Education hires the superintendent.

It is up to them to hire someone who obeys the laws. They seem incapable of doing that.

These "errors" happened during Smith and/or McKnight's tenures, not Taylor's.

And it’s likely an error in some formula that was uncovered. Not just someone continuously carelessly entering amounts wrong.

They did not follow the law on paying wages.

Now talk to the workers who were underpaid and give them your excuses.

Speculation.

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State says that no funding was cut and Woodward was financed by McKnight's team at a lower cost of labor then the standard for State subsidized work. ("Subsidies" are actually state giving MoCo taxpayer money back to MoCo) . Subsidies are still being paid to MoCo since Moco has more than enough compliant work to consume the subsidy.

Only problem is Taylor lying about it to try to shake more funds from somewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:We need to know which MCPS employee/department is responsible for this "error." This kind of incompetence is tolerated so casually at MCPS and the repercussions, such as millions of dollars in lost funding like this, are too high.

Dr. Taylor, let's see some of that transparency and accountability you were talking about in action.

Money is not an issue. They can just raise property taxes to cover the shortfall as always sky is the limit.

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Anonymous wrote:I appreciated hearing Taylor's comments at the beginning of this morning's CIP meeting, and also his response to Julie Yang's question on how he will ensure these errors are not happening in the future (which occurs around minute 56:30):

His answer to Yang’s question was nonsensical. He said he didn’t want to assign blame but admitted that people missed deadlines and were moving too fast. So clearly there are people to blame if both of those things he claimed are true.

I took that to mean he didn't want to name specific people who are no longer at MCPS, but clearly acknowledged that the staff at the time had made these errors.

Basically those folks are still there and he's going to let it pass.

They sure are - two of them were even at the table across from him yesterday

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Anonymous wrote:https://mocoshow.com/2024/10/23/mcps-statement-regarding-recommended-fy26-capital-budget-and-amendments-to-the-fy-2025-30-capital-improvements-program/

So this was not a one-time error:

Dating back to 2021, MCPS miscalculated prevailing wage and bid awards across the multiple phases of the project. This error was entirely MCPS’s.

I appreciate that there was a lot more detail here than what was in the board docs, and that Taylor is "supremely disappointed," but I need to know what actions will be taken to remediate this pretty gross failing on the part of multiple individuals and departments. I also think the BOE failed here too. But since they don't have independent staff, relying on the elected board members to be sharp on this stuff is unrealistic.

The Board of Education hires the superintendent.

It is up to them to hire someone who obeys the laws. They seem incapable of doing that.

These "errors" happened during Smith and/or McKnight's tenures, not Taylor's.

And it’s likely an error in some formula that was uncovered. Not just someone continuously carelessly entering amounts wrong.

They did not follow the law on paying wages.

Now talk to the workers who were underpaid and give them your excuses.

Speculation.

Do you not understand the word wage?