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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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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.

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.

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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.

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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: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.

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

+1. Lots of suppositions here, as usual.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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