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Findings 5 findings
F1
The select list of contractors employed by MJUSD for its lease-leaseback contracting is a closed pool of contractors with little or no competition. This has resulted in a closed and exclusive list of contractors, subject to favoritism or abuse, noted by the large percentage of contract dollars awarded to two general contractors with previous relationships to personnel in the Facilities Department.
F2
The Facilities Department has no established criteria for the hiring of local subcontractors to enable the bond money to stay within the community and there are no established procedures for adding new contractors on a regular basis to ensure securing “best value” for the taxpayers.
F3
The MJUSD needs to establish a method to ensure the ethics laws of California are being adhered to in the contracting of services. The staff at MJUSD is not provided ethics training at this time.
F4
There is minimal review of lease-leaseback contracts by the MJUSD Board. The Board is given a listed contractor on a project by the Facilities Department. The Board does not have the opportunity to review the full range of proposals to ensure equity, fairness and oversight in awarding contracts paid by public bond funds.
F5
The dissolution of the RHCSD is being considered by the County and LAFCO. The County is in the process of determining the liability of the bonds for which the RHCSD has administrative responsibilities.
Recommendations 5
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R1The MJUSD needs to establish an open and public list of contractors for lease-leaseback contracting or return to the low-bid process to ensure fairness in the awarding of contracts.
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R2The MJUSD Board should establish goals to utilize a minimum percentage of local subcontractors in lease-leaseback projects in order to put the bond money voted by Yuba County residents back into Yuba County. They establish a procedure to update and add new contractors to the established list.
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R3Establish a requirement for all officials and all individuals required to purchase, contract or make decisions for the school district, to have ethics training every two years as recommended in Senate Bill 106.
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R4The Board should formulate a procedure for the reviewing of proposals for lease-leaseback contracts including additional time to examine the compiled list from which to select the most qualified proposal. PASSED and ADOPTED by the Yuba County Grand Jury on June 12, 2009
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R5The Committee concurs with the County and LAFCO that RHCSD should be dissolved and its various contracts and obligations transferred to appropriate entities. PASSED and ADOPTED by the Yuba County Grand Jury on May 26, 2009
Commendations 4
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CM1 Page 74Distance from the corner edge of the portable classroom structure to Hoover Road: 11 feet 10 inches. (See attached photographs Exhibits 4A/4B.)
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CM2 Page 74Distance from the corner edge of the portable classroom structure to Loma Rica Road: 23 feet, 7 inches. (See attached photograph Exhibit 5.)
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CM3 Page 74Distance from the corner edge of the portable classroom structure to Fruitland Road where said road runs adjacent to the classroom: 11 feet, 5 inches. (See attached photographs Exhibits 6A/6B.)
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CM4 Page 74Distance from the corner edge of the portable classroom structure to a 35-foot high (approximately) wood telephone pole: 5 feet, 6 inches. (See attached photographs Exhibits 7A/7B.) Loma Rica School Loma Rica Road Fruitland Road Hoover Road Portables In addition, high voltage electrical lines run overhead and in close proximity to a row of portable and permanent school structures along Fruitland Road. These power lines are approximately 40 to 50 feet above the portables. In photograph 7A, a telephone pole adjacent to Hoover Road can be seen leaning toward the portables. While the area may be rural, the fact remains that when traffic goes by, it is the same traffic found on any heavily travelled street in an urban location. Besides speeding vehicles, heavy vehicles such as delivery trucks regularly traverse the intersection, as well as a number of vehicles carrying heavy equipment. Some of these larger vehicles are trucks carrying massive bulldozers, excavators and/or logs. Anything falling off a flat bed truck, at the right angle, could easily go over the temporary and unconnected barriers MJUSD has placed as a protective
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