City of Crestwood purchasing policy.
Ladies and Gentlemen, there has been quite a bit of conjecture as to the official policy of the City of Crestwood. If you will click on the header you will be directed to the document on the City web site.
As usual this is in PDF form, so if you do not have an Adobie acrobat reader, you will have a problem viewing it. If you wish to view it on the City web site, click on the link on this blog, go to adjendas and look up the BOA meeting (last one,) in January, 2004.
I hope this clears up the confusion.
Tom Ford
No. 237
As usual this is in PDF form, so if you do not have an Adobie acrobat reader, you will have a problem viewing it. If you wish to view it on the City web site, click on the link on this blog, go to adjendas and look up the BOA meeting (last one,) in January, 2004.
I hope this clears up the confusion.
Tom Ford
No. 237
posted by Crestwood Independent at 07:49
18 Comments:
If there is a "bail out" clause, it's on page 9. This could be where the C/A felt he was cleared to hire MR. Sumack.
Tom Ford
hey don't confuse us with the facts! it's all greer's fault.
Hey, your really funny. You should take your show on the road...very very far down the road.
Apparently Elliot Davis is verrry interested in our purchasing policy!
yes I heard he was seen on the city hall steps yesterday with a city official.
it may be greer's fault, but the purchasing policy is still in effect. the new city administrator is not above it.
True. The new city adminstrator is not above it and the policy requires at least three bids. Does Crestwood need another consultant to tell us what our problems are?
How can I be an consultant for the City of Crestwood and walk out with a bag of cash for all talk?
How can we pass an ordinance on producing some concrete results?
I wonder if Lyle Sumek read the City of Crestwood 2000 Commission report. It sounds verbatim!
Can we get a refund from Lyle Sumek's psychology work on our BOA and Mayor?
Surely he dosen't think we are so stupid as to not know about plagerism. I suggest he refund us.
7:09 PM blogger: Your way too late my friend, I signed up for that gig the second I heard the "Music man" was coming to town!
My problen though it that I am a results oriented kind of guy, and I still can't play the trombone!
Point being, I think we purchased the "sizzle instead of the steak!!"
Tom Ford
aren't there any free materials like this online?
By JAMES GLANZ
Published: October 30, 2006
The American military has not properly tracked hundreds of thousands of weapons intended for Iraqi security forces and has failed to provide spare parts, maintenance personnel or even repair manuals for most of the weapons given to the Iraqis, a federal report released Sunday has concluded.
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Go to Complete Coverage » The report was undertaken at the request of Senator John W. Warner, the Virginia Republican who is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and who recently expressed an assessment far darker than the Bush administration’s on the situation in Iraq.
Mr. Warner sent his request in May to a federal oversight agency, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. He also asked the inspector general to examine whether Iraqi security forces were developing a logistics operation capable of sustaining the hundreds of thousands of troops and police officers the American military says it has trained.
The answers came Sunday from the inspector general’s office, which found major discrepancies in American military records on where thousands of 9-millimeter pistols and hundreds of assault rifles and other weapons have ended up. The American military did not even take the elementary step of recording the serial numbers of nearly half a million weapons provided to Iraqis, the inspector general found, making it impossible to track or identify any that might be in the wrong hands.
Exactly where untracked weapons could end up — and whether some have been used against American soldiers — were not examined in the report, although black-market arms dealers thrive on the streets of Baghdad, and official Iraq Army and police uniforms can easily be purchased as well, presumably because government shipments are intercepted or otherwise corrupted.
In a written response to the inspector general’s findings, the American military largely conceded the shortcomings. The military said it would assist the Iraqis in determining the spare parts and maintenance requirements for the weapons. The military also said it has now instituted a “process to accurately issue weapons by quantity and serial number listing.”
Because the inspector general is charged only with looking at weaponry financed directly by the American taxpayer, the total of lost weapons could end up being higher. The Government Accountability Office and the Pentagon inspector general are expected to look at weapons financed by all sources, including the Iraqi government.
The inspector general’s office, led by Stuart W. Bowen Jr., also a Republican, responded to Mr. Warner’s query about the Iraqi Army’s logistical capabilities with another report released at the same time, concluding that Iraqi security forces still depended heavily on the Americans for the operations that sustain a modern army: deliveries of fuel and ammunition, troop transport, health care and maintenance.
Mr. Bowen found that the American military was not able to say how many Iraqi logistics personnel it had trained — in this case because, the military told the inspector general, a computer network crash erased records. Those problems have occurred even though the United States has spent $133 million on the weapons program and $666 million on Iraqi logistics capabilities.
The report said that although the United States planned to scale back its support for logistics and maintenance for Iraqi security forces in 2007, it was unclear whether the Iraqi government had any intention of compensating by allocating sufficient money to the Ministries of Interior and Defense.
Mr. Warner confirmed through his spokesman, John Ullyot, that he was reviewing the reports over the weekend in advance of a scheduled meeting with Mr. Bowen on Tuesday.
Mr. Warner “believes it is essential that Congress and the American people continue to be kept informed by the inspector general on the equipping and logistical capabilities of the Iraqi Army and security forces, since these represent an important component of overall readiness,” Mr. Ullyot said.
Mr. Bowen said in an interview that he was particularly concerned about whether the Iraqi government intended to allocate enough money to support the logistics and maintenance needed for the Iraqi security forces to operate effectively.
“There’s a couple of red flags,” Mr. Bowen said. “Most significantly, is the Iraqi Ministry of Interior properly preparing to take over the mission and sustain it?”
“We don’t know because we don’t have adequate visibility into their budgeting,” he said, “and to a lesser extent the same red flag is up for the Department of Defense.”
The new City Administrator violated the purchasing policy and spent over $8000 for a Strategic Plan. Then he admitted to Elliot that he did not know the Commission 2000 planning report existed. If someone is new to a city government and is concerned about planning for the future as well as costs, wouldn't it be smart to ask if a plan already exists (especially one based on a survey of residents and businesses like the Commission 2000 plan) before spending $8000 from your slush fund?
is there any penalty for violating the purchasing policy? if there isn't, where's the incentive not to do it again?
7:40 Nov. 3rd blogger. Since nothing was ever done after all these years about the Crestwood 2000 report; it may as well have not existed. That report was and is a lost cause.
If nobody tells Frank Meyer what has been going on, he never was hired to be a mind reader so how is he suppose to know. He certainly didn't get any inspiration in his new job from the previous CA/Police Chief. Further, that person and maybe you, too, sound like you are just hoping that Frank Meyer falls on his face. Why? Because he was hired by Roy. No other reason really. If you are hired by Roy, appointed by Roy or have anything to do with Roy, you will be picked apart until you are left with nothing but skull and bone. That's a fact, Jack!
If the city report was done awhile back and it was claimed is so similar to the recent report we paid for, and Mr. Myers didn't know about the former report, how did the firm get their hands on it to use?
Does everybody up yonder know that residents did not vote the tax increase to have surprises. Pls heed this city hallers. When the books are lookin good agaiin, then approved and pre approved should enter the picture along with cautious and let'ls not go overboard.
Do we have to have a study done of everything in such a small city? It is absurd.
7:17 111/18 blogger. Absurd? I'll tell you what is absurd! This town has been driven into the ground by people that didn't give a tinker's darn about spending money. This town has been going into the ground since Pat Killoren left the city and wasn't there 24/7 to watch the money like a hawk.
Leichliter did nothing when she left. Jim Brasfield didn't sit on him and make him do his job like she did. Leichliter was left with nothing more than a Judas waiting for the right time to take over his job. That was Leichliter's fault. Nothing more and nothing less. He failed.
But every person that has come down the pike since, did nothing but give this town away, bit by bit. Fagan gave too much power to one person and that's why he is not mayor today. Pure and simple.
Blame Roy for everything you want to blame him for, but people got tired of one person having too much power.
All the studies including the Civil Service classification study was done for nothing. It was nothing more than a subtrifuge to make people think that they were working so darn hard.
So now, in order to straight out the mess, you are going to fault an $8,000 expenditure, while others glorified a 14 million dollar police facility and gobs of expenditures that created the loss of capital in the first place.
I don't get it and I never will.
7:17 111/18 blogger. Absurd? I'll tell you what is absurd! This town has been driven into the ground by people that didn't give a tinker's darn about spending money. This town has been going into the ground since Pat Killoren left the city and wasn't there 24/7 to watch the money like a hawk.
Leichliter did nothing when she left. Jim Brasfield didn't sit on him and make him do his job like she did. Leichliter was left with nothing more than a Judas waiting for the right time to take over his job. That was Leichliter's fault. Nothing more and nothing less. He failed.
But every person that has come down the pike since, did nothing but give this town away, bit by bit. Fagan gave too much power to one person and that's why he is not mayor today. Pure and simple.
Blame Roy for everything you want to blame him for, but people got tired of one person having too much power.
All the studies including the Civil Service classification study was done for nothing. It was nothing more than a subtrifuge to make people think that they were working so darn hard.
So now, in order to straight out the mess, you are going to fault an $8,000 expenditure, while others glorified a 14 million dollar police facility and gobs of expenditures that created the loss of capital in the first place.
I don't get it and I never will.
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