Jack Smith contract litigation from Calvert County. Now Smith is withholding $800K Contract Term from MoCo Board of Ed.

Let's review what happened when Jack R. Smith was the Superintendent of Calvert County Public Schools. 

SoMdNews Online

March 5, 2015
...Members of the Calvert board of education claim they were unaware of the executive team contracts held between the employees and Smith and said because the contracts were signed with Smith and not the board, the provisions stated in the contract were not to be extended past the June 30, 2013, date...

SoMdNewsOnlineSeptember 2, 2015
...At the end of the 2013 school year, Smith announced his resignation as Calvert’s superintendent of schools to become chief academic officer for the state. In the following months, some Calvert County Board of Education members uncovered the amount of money Smith was permitted to take from the school system in comprehensive benefits.While Smith’s contracts paid him an annual base salary of $169,000, his total compensation was upward of $300,000 in his last year as superintendent. Smith said the additional income was due to benefits, including life and health insurance coverage that will continue for life for him and his wife, paid by the Calvert school system and approved by the previous school board.Smith also was permitted to cash in annual sick leave he hadn’t used. Though Smith’s salary remained at $169,000, his take-home amounts increased each year.Smith also had granted similar contracts to his executive team members. Many Calvert school board members, including current board member Kelly McConkey, were not aware of these contracts.“I couldn’t believe somebody could do what they did and be promoted to a position of importance like that,”..
Now, here we are in 2020, in the beginning of a global pandemic where schools are closed and the public is not allowed to attend public meetings.  

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Now let's look at what is happening this week in Montgomery County Public Schools. 

• Tomorrow the Montgomery County Board of Education will be given a MEMORANDUM that purports to detail a CONTRACT.  
• The Board of Education is to vote on the CONTRACT without ever actually seeing it.
• Based on the years of litigation generated in Calvert County by then Superintendent Jack Smith's signing of contracts one would think that Superintendent Smith would be providing Montgomery County Board of Education members with the actual CONTRACTS that they are voting on.  But that won't happen tomorrow, April 21, 2020.

On April 21, 2020, the Montgomery County Board of Education will vote to spend up to $800,000 for an artificial turf football field for the City of Gaithersburg without even knowing it. 

Here is the MEMORANDUM that Superintendent Jack R. Smith is presenting to the Montgomery County Board of Education: 

Jack Smith Memo to Board of Ed.

 https://www.scribd.com/document/457356446/Gaithersburg-Cluster-ES-8-Land-Acquisition-Agree-1

But here is the ACTUAL CONTRACT that Superintendent Jack Smith has sent to the City of Gaithersburg.  
The Parents' Coalition has obtained the actual document and made it public.  

http://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2020/04/emergency-mcps-must-agree-to-fund-up-to.html

In the actual Contract it says that the City of Gaithersburg shall construct a field of THEIR choice, either artificial turf or natural grass.  The Contract says that if the City of Gaithersburg builds an artificial turf field then the Board of Education shall reimburse the City for up to $800,000 for the design and construction of an artificial turf field.  

On April 21, 2020, the Montgomery County Board of Education will unknowingly vote to spend $800,000 on a luxury item for the City of Gaithersburg, meanwhile children in Montgomery County are out of school, missing meals and families are in crisis.