Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we get McKnight on racketeering charges now?

Covering up embezzlement by her staff.

No one covered it up. In fact it was announced that it had happened. The folks have been convicted. And in light of that the court is mandating that this be rebid.

You're too sane and reasonable to be posting here.

Anonymous wrote:This thread is just full of bad ideas and misinformation.

Because Chris Cram doesn’t want any discussion of the botched $168m procurement.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

2 of the 3 (or 4) MCPS employees who reviewed the initial bids for the MCPS electric school bus contract have since been convicted of crimes including felony theft and misdemeanor misconduct in office in relation to a scheme to divert MCPS funds to an off the books account held by a subcontractor on the HET MCPS, LLC (Highland Electric) electric school bus proposal.

This is stealing from children - the next generation. Absolutely despicable. Whatever the consequences are for these people, they are not nearly harsh enough. We should have absolutely zero tolerance for corruption.

Someone needs to hold the BOE accountable as they ultimtely approve thse contracts.

When your only source of information is the entity that is lying to you, it's pretty easy to make the wrong decision. The fault of the BOE isn't so much this one contract, it's the collection of policies adopted over decades by the various MoCo BOEs, up to and including this one, that essentially set up that paradigm, where the MCPS Superintendent and those the Superintendent appoints to high position feed whatever they want to a time- and resource-constrained Board.

The underlying blame, however, is on the County Council for neglecting to ensure the kind of BOE salary that would draw more capable BOE candidates (though that may be a point, allowing more candidates of the political machine to be elected without stronger oppoments) and funding enough to provide an MCPS-independent staff to support their oversight work. We all know that the Council afford that to themselves in spades.

People complain about wasted tax dollars when they hear such suggestions, but there's far greater waste (or even malfeasance, as might be seen in this case) that gets through because of the lack of oversight capacity.

Isn't that the determined by the MD General Assembly?

That is a technicality born of the county BOEs' technically being state employees. Request comes from the county. MoCo County Council tabled an evaluation a few years back that might have supported it, and then ignored their own tabling directive to have that re-examined this past year.

This thread is just full of bad ideas and misinformation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

2 of the 3 (or 4) MCPS employees who reviewed the initial bids for the MCPS electric school bus contract have since been convicted of crimes including felony theft and misdemeanor misconduct in office in relation to a scheme to divert MCPS funds to an off the books account held by a subcontractor on the HET MCPS, LLC (Highland Electric) electric school bus proposal.

This is stealing from children - the next generation. Absolutely despicable. Whatever the consequences are for these people, they are not nearly harsh enough. We should have absolutely zero tolerance for corruption.

Someone needs to hold the BOE accountable as they ultimtely approve thse contracts.

When your only source of information is the entity that is lying to you, it's pretty easy to make the wrong decision. The fault of the BOE isn't so much this one contract, it's the collection of policies adopted over decades by the various MoCo BOEs, up to and including this one, that essentially set up that paradigm, where the MCPS Superintendent and those the Superintendent appoints to high position feed whatever they want to a time- and resource-constrained Board.

The underlying blame, however, is on the County Council for neglecting to ensure the kind of BOE salary that would draw more capable BOE candidates (though that may be a point, allowing more candidates of the political machine to be elected without stronger oppoments) and funding enough to provide an MCPS-independent staff to support their oversight work. We all know that the Council afford that to themselves in spades.

People complain about wasted tax dollars when they hear such suggestions, but there's far greater waste (or even malfeasance, as might be seen in this case) that gets through because of the lack of oversight capacity.

Isn't that the determined by the MD General Assembly?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

2 of the 3 (or 4) MCPS employees who reviewed the initial bids for the MCPS electric school bus contract have since been convicted of crimes including felony theft and misdemeanor misconduct in office in relation to a scheme to divert MCPS funds to an off the books account held by a subcontractor on the HET MCPS, LLC (Highland Electric) electric school bus proposal.

This is stealing from children - the next generation. Absolutely despicable. Whatever the consequences are for these people, they are not nearly harsh enough. We should have absolutely zero tolerance for corruption.

Someone needs to hold the BOE accountable as they ultimtely approve thse contracts.

When your only source of information is the entity that is lying to you, it's pretty easy to make the wrong decision. The fault of the BOE isn't so much this one contract, it's the collection of policies adopted over decades by the various MoCo BOEs, up to and including this one, that essentially set up that paradigm, where the MCPS Superintendent and those the Superintendent appoints to high position feed whatever they want to a time- and resource-constrained Board.

The underlying blame, however, is on the County Council for neglecting to ensure the kind of BOE salary that would draw more capable BOE candidates (though that may be a point, allowing more candidates of the political machine to be elected without stronger oppoments) and funding enough to provide an MCPS-independent staff to support their oversight work. We all know that the Council afford that to themselves in spades.

People complain about wasted tax dollars when they hear such suggestions, but there's far greater waste (or even malfeasance, as might be seen in this case) that gets through because of the lack of oversight capacity.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we get McKnight on racketeering charges now?

Covering up embezzlement by her staff.

No one covered it up. In fact it was announced that it had happened. The folks have been convicted. And in light of that the court is mandating that this be rebid.

MCPS covered it up. Read the Opinion. They hid the names of the MCPS reviewers from the court.

Anonymous wrote:Can we get McKnight on racketeering charges now?

Covering up embezzlement by her staff.

No one covered it up. In fact it was announced that it had happened. The folks have been convicted. And in light of that the court is mandating that this be rebid.

Anonymous wrote:

2 of the 3 (or 4) MCPS employees who reviewed the initial bids for the MCPS electric school bus contract have since been convicted of crimes including felony theft and misdemeanor misconduct in office in relation to a scheme to divert MCPS funds to an off the books account held by a subcontractor on the HET MCPS, LLC (Highland Electric) electric school bus proposal.

This is stealing from children - the next generation. Absolutely despicable. Whatever the consequences are for these people, they are not nearly harsh enough. We should have absolutely zero tolerance for corruption.

Someone needs to hold the BOE accountable as they ultimtely approve thse contracts.

2 of the 3 (or 4) MCPS employees who reviewed the initial bids for the MCPS electric school bus contract have since been convicted of crimes including felony theft and misdemeanor misconduct in office in relation to a scheme to divert MCPS funds to an off the books account held by a subcontractor on the HET MCPS, LLC (Highland Electric) electric school bus proposal.

This is stealing from children - the next generation. Absolutely despicable. Whatever the consequences are for these people, they are not nearly harsh enough. We should have absolutely zero tolerance for corruption.

Anonymous wrote:Can we get McKnight on racketeering charges now?

Covering up embezzlement by her staff.

She leads a charmed life, evidently.

Can we get McKnight on racketeering charges now?

Covering up embezzlement by her staff.

This was a McKnight administration issue. There was so much that she wasn't able to manage, including this.

Its about time someone holds the BOE and MCPS accountable.

Cool way to line your pockets.
Work for mcps.

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