$32,782 coffee tab

Coffee or COLA?

With all due respect to coffee drinkers, is a $32,782 coffee contract required in a public school's "bare bones budget"?

Please note that the memorandum for this MCPS purchase shows it was a contract extension, no bids were taken.

This procurement was made in the summer of 2009, long after teachers had given up their COLAs and the school system was under various classroom related spending freezes.

If coffee is sold to students at lunch is MCPS recovering the cost, or is this purchase just for administrator and staff consumption? If you know, please comment.