$543K audit of recycling program...

[rainyjim]

Ever wonder why "theres no money for 'that' " when we need improvements?

"Six companies that run recycling centers–the cost was supposed to be a little more than $76,000 dollars, but that price increased to over $543,000."

"The company only ended up auditing two of the companies."

http://khon2.com/2015/07/31/543k-audit-o...-question/

[TomK]

Don't worry, later on in the same article it says this:

"The Department of Health says it will be offering more training for employees and discussing internally whether or not its current system is working."

So rest assured, this will be fixed.

[steve1]

I have been thinking about this for a while now and have reached some conclusions:

1) "employee training" will not work because the people who screwed up are not low level employees. They are highly paid managers. Anyone who can sign a check or put in a purchase order for over 700% of the bid price is a manager, and a bad one at that. They are either corrupt, incompetent, or paid off.

2) Any manager who authorized this gross negligence should be fired. Why should taxpayers be liable for footing the excessive bills of overpaid incompetent, stupid, or corrupt managers and to also continue paying their salaries so they can continue to screw up?

[kalakoa]

They are either corrupt, incompetent, or paid off.

These options are not mutually exclusive.

Any manager who authorized this gross negligence should be fired.

Their bosses, too, all the way up to Kenoi.

[rainyjim]

This just spurs me to imagine the untold millions that we have yet to learn about that are needlessly squandered!