From the News Sentinel
Mayor: Contract decision ‘bittersweet’
Although he remains optimistic it will improve government performance, Mayor Tom Henry on Wednesday called his predecessor’s 11th-hour decision to award a three-year, $285,000 contract to a nonprofit corporation the former mayor helped create “bittersweet.”
Before taking office Jan. 1, Henry said Graham Richard sent him the proposed contract with the High Performance Government Network, which promotes management techniques Richard said saved the city $30 million. “I said I’d consider it,” Henry said. But City Controller Pat Roller signed the contract less than a week before Richard left office, obligating Henry’s administration to pay $95,000 this year and again in 2009. Despite signing the contract the last week of the year, the city also paid $95,000 in 2007, even though it received no services in return.
$30 million my ass. Prove it.
“That was the ‘bitter’ part. That doesn’t sit well with me,” Henry said.
The organization is located in the Public Safety Academy, where it pays rent of nearly $615 each month.
How much room is that I wonder?
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“Despite signing the contract the last week of the year, the city also paid $95,000 in 2007, even though it received no services in return.”
That’s extremely shady. Is there any explanation in defense of this?
“Despite signing the contract the last week of the year, the city also paid $95,000 in 2007, even though it received no services in return.”
Was that $30M in savings before or after they threw away $95K?
Forsooth, methinks this doth smell of something most foul in the state of Fort Wayne.
((Alas poor Graham, I knew him Thomas…a man of infinite ways to screweth this fair city.))
Good thing this city’s got that several million dollar windfall coming in 2009 from…what utility was that again?
B.G.
Bob G…
I fear that the I & M money is already being spent on the likes of Oprah giveaways. All of it should go toward sewers.
Maybe not …that will raise to much of a stink.
Does anyone know what cuty account the $95,000 was charged to? That might help pin down what highjinks were involved with this very questionable contract.
That should be “City” account.