Thanks to Ms. Burle for doing the calculations that the District Board and staff should have been doing all along. There have been public statements that the number of ontime contracts has improved ...but with 21% of this week's contracts up for on-time approval this looks like one more area where the district isn't following the data.
Can the Board move toward approving contracts BEFORE their start date, rather than after? This seems to be poor financial practice, where either vendors are starting work and waiting a long time to get paid, or (more worrisome), they are possibly working and getting paid before the Board approves the contract? Seems like Board members would feel pressure to approve these. In this meeting's consent calendar, of 33 contracts with vendors, 26 contracts have start dates before 2/24/21, often several months earlier. It is good to see that 7 contracts are set to begin 2/25/21, after the consent calendar vote.
Thanks to Ms. Burle for doing the calculations that the District Board and staff should have been doing all along. There have been public statements that the number of ontime contracts has improved ...but with 21% of this week's contracts up for on-time approval this looks like one more area where the district isn't following the data.
Can the Board move toward approving contracts BEFORE their start date, rather than after? This seems to be poor financial practice, where either vendors are starting work and waiting a long time to get paid, or (more worrisome), they are possibly working and getting paid before the Board approves the contract? Seems like Board members would feel pressure to approve these. In this meeting's consent calendar, of 33 contracts with vendors, 26 contracts have start dates before 2/24/21, often several months earlier. It is good to see that 7 contracts are set to begin 2/25/21, after the consent calendar vote.