TRIM FAT AROUND CITY CONTRACTS BEFORE RESORTING TO LAYOFFS AND SERVICE CUTS
..."Layoffs and cuts to essential city services aren't the only options for closing a daunting $1.6 billion budget gap. Especially now, there must be a concerted effort across city agencies to identify and trim any fat around city contracts. Specifically, agencies should be questioning whether all contracts are truly necessary, and should also be asking for reasonable cost concessions from its major contractors the way even the MTA has recently and successfully done."In Fiscal Year 2010, my office identified $157.4 million in potential savings through audits of city agencies alone...
A good place to start might be to actually solicit competitive bids on County and School system contracts.
ReplyDeleteWe should never again allow $13M to be spent on electronic white boards without a competitive bidding process.
Also we should follow those pesky "good government" rules which require things like appropriations to be made prior to committing expenditures.
Slowing things down and allowing procurement and oversight to work would save hundreds of millions of dollars in Montgomery County.
Bob Astrove