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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems like they're paying a premium to be on the bleeding edge. I'd like an electric car too but also understand that it just wasn't cost-effective  at least when I was last int he market for a car.[/quote]

Yes, this all seems like McKnight was so invested about getting glowing media coverage about being the first school system to do this, that she rammed it through without due diligence.[/quote]

She was not alone. I recall Lynne Harris positively beaming about this because she's all about the environment.[/quote]

So now it’s all McKnight and the folks that should have been advising or speaking up are off the hook?  And the GC doesn’t catch it for not putting in adequate protections for failed delivery.[/quote]

Watkins and Ewald are the ones who should have been advising....

[url]https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2023/09/former-montgomery-co-school-administrator-sentenced-for-one-of-the-worst-financial-crimes-to-ever-victimize/[/url][/quote]

Exactly.  And they have been prosecuted for their misdeeds.  Which makes the Superintendent (McKnight in this case) and the school system victims.  Sure McKnight has to own it because she was the big boss, but there is non need to drag her like she did anything wrong here.  The system needs to learn from this and improve process so that these things can be better caught sooner and managed.  Some of which includes the GC putting in protections in contracts and the procurement process being better.[/quote]

McKnight is a victim?  That is rich.  She did everything wrong by not overseeing a $168M procurement.

The contract says MCPS is owed $1.5M.  MCPS says they are “negotiating” that payment.  That’s not a problem with the contract, that’s a problem with MCPS Superintendent not safeguarding MCPS funding.  No process can make Taylor do his job.  If he won’t do his job the taxpayers lose. McKnight set the stage for this disaster.[/quote]

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