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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is a report of something from the past.  There was previously an P-card issue, which McKnight and now Taylor have taken steps to address by limiting who had access to P-cards and putting more caps and approvals.  Additionally, the finding of 25K wasn't that the board just didn't approve a $25K procurement it was that the vendor had awards totally $25K over the course of a year, so multiple smaller payments.  And MCPS seems to agree that going forward flags should be raised for those vendors so it can be brought to the board.

Also we don't know that for sure that $10M was spent without board approval, just that ABC news didn't find it on the BoE site.  It could be merely misclassification and something not be published on the BoE.

Its not loyalty, its that not all of us get out pitch forks ever time a news report is written about MCPS.[/quote]

We know for sure that the Board of Education has not approved this spending.  MCPS responded to the reporters inquiry.  Read the article.  The reporter gave MCPS the opportunity to respond and they didn’t produce Board of Education approval.  [/quote]

🙄 The board approved the use of the credit cards in 2014. Individual employees have limits on their purchases. The $10M is the total of all credit card purchases.[/quote]

How does that change Maryland law that requires any annual expenditure of over $25K to a vendor to be approved by the Board of Education?

And Taylor’s credit card bill for FY2025 was $3 million more than McKnight’s.  [/quote]

For credit card transactions, wouldn't the vendor be the merchant rather than the credit card company?[/quote]

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