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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I'm less worried about the personnel than I am about the unapproved contracts.
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The personnel is likely some of the folks that McKnight brought back when she was desperately floundering to keep her job. Remember she brought back Henry Johnson who had retired, and a few others? I suspect some of them had been consultants and then were hired in the same year or vice versa. So technically against policy, but I don't think the majority of them were double-dipping at the same time. I could be wrong, though.

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The detail on the findings for contracts is that 7 out of 32 tested were not in compliance. That tells me they really weren't even trying to catch anything that wasn't a single transaction of over $25K. If a vendor had multiple payments that add up to $25K they slip through.

[b]In a big picture sense, though, $25K is a very small amount to be asking for board approval every time. There's no way they are providing meaningful oversight because there are going to be SO MANY $25K vendors in a budget of $3.6 billion[/b]. The threshold should be raised if they want this to be a effective control vs a rubber stamp.  
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I agree with you in the abstract, but given that:

1) This board is part-time and easily duped and manipulated by Board staff and the superintendent, there's reason to keep the threshold this low

2) [b]The total amount of unapproved funds spent by MCPS is $1 million: [/b]https://www.fox5dc.com/news/report-finds-mcps-spent-1m-without-board-education-approval Again, in the context of the overall budget that's not meaningful, but if it could balloon to $1 million, you can see how that number could get even bigger without changes in oversight.

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That's only from the OIG reviewing 32 random transactions out of the 12,000+ records they received.  The depth of this fraud and waste is huge and will likely never fully be uncovered.  How do we as tax payers ask for a full audit to see just how much was paid unapproved and to double dippers?  This honestly has the potential to be the biggest MCPS scandal to date.

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