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“CIRCUMVENTING” THE BID COMMITTEE

Rumor has it that that one of the reasons for the large increase in the category labeled “General and Administrative” (please read my post titled “General and Administrative Expense - $856,935) in some way coincides with a desire to perhaps “circumvent” the Bid Committee.

Now, why someone would want to do that is quite a curiosity.  When consideration is being given to engage the services of a contractor, and the anticipated cost is more than $5,000, this committee reviews the Request for Proposal (RFP) and then carefully considers the responses from hopefully at least three vendors.  I say hopefully because some-times it is difficult to get three vendors to respond.

Why anyone would want to “circumvent” this process which has been part of standard operating procedure (SOP) for perhaps the past five years is very peculiar.  Need I say “road paving” as an example of what I am alluding to?

This committee is a very important committee.  The present chair of the committee is Barbara Cornish and prior to that was Dom Guarnagia.  Some time ago one of the present UCO officers informed one of the committee chairs that the committee was “irrelevant”!!   That is not only self-serving but an insult to the work being done; to the time being given by the volunteers on the committee and last but not least to ALL the owners and residents in Century Village.

This nearly $1 million dollar line item in the new budget needs to be itemized and scrutinized; the unit owners deserve no less, after all, they are the ones paying the bills.  We certainly don’t want another road paving fiasco do we?

And, last but not least, remember what Mr. Lincoln said “. . . but, you can’t fool ALL of the people ALL of the time.”

Dorothy Tetro