[Vision2020] What the . . . ?

[Ken]

On Wednesday 11 August 2010 11:09:08 Tom Hansen wrote:
> The original purpose of seeking contractual arrangements with private
> security was to save money and reduce costs of campus security.

That's called intra-marketing and consensus building.

> Yet, the contractual arrangement with AlliedBarton, as an addition to MPD's
> contract (which has already been signed, sealed, and delivered), is going
> to cost the Idaho tax payer $280,000 more than last year.

Have you noticed how Allied Barton kinda sounds like Halliburton?

> This arrangement with AlliedBarton wreaks of fraud.  I get the impression
> that a behind-closed-doors deal may have already been made between
> AlliedBarton and "the powers that be".

Does the contract provide for external auditors to examine AlliedBarton books 
for the purpose of determining for what the contract revenues were expended? 
And to determine to which vendors/entities those public monies were spent?

> Regardless of what was said or done . . . or what the Idaho tax payer said  
> or felt . . . AlliedBarton (and all of its crookedness) was/is going to be 
> contracted as UI's security, and . . . just as a door prize . . . UI tossed 
> in health care for the AlliedBarton employees . . . ALL AT IDAHO TAX PAYER 
> EXPENSE.

NPR mentioned this morning that the USA now has more than one contractor for 
each soldier in its Afghanistan operations. The suggestion was that rather 
than allowing private contractors to go eastward to hire Filipino workers to 
bring to Afghanistan, the local situation would be better served if local 
people were hired to work in their own communities. Well, DUH.

Back here in Moscow one does wonder whether, if the University needs 
additional personnel for security duties, it might not be able to satisfy 
those staffing needs from the local, indigenous population -- perhaps even 
from the "student body." And since when are external contractor management 
overheads necessary to supervise that sort of on-campus activity?


Ken