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Extracted from Consolidated Report
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Findings 4 findings
F1
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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
Page 16
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
Page 16
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
Page 16
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 Yuba County Grand Jury Final Report June 25, 2009 opportunity to review the full range of proposals to ensure equity, fairness and oversight in awarding contracts paid by public bond funds.
Recommendations 4
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R1Page 16The 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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R2Page 16The 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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R3Page 16Establish 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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R4Page 17The 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