BREAKING: Board of Education to Award $3.3M Contract to Non-Existent Company on Non-Existent Contract. Why not? No one cares. No oversight. No accountability. #electricschoolbuses

 

These are the names and faces of the Montgomery County Board of Education as of today.  

Not one of them knows how to read a contract or check a document.  Read their resumes here.  Multiple lawyers on the Board of Education, on their staff, and a whole team of lawyers on the MCPS payroll and not one of them can read a contract. 

All that education and it is completely useless. 

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On January 12, 2023, the Montgomery County Board of Education will award a contract for $ 3,330,250 for an unknown number of electric school buses to a company that does not exist. 

The memorandum from MCPS Superintendent Monifa McKnight says she is requesting a contract EXTENSION with a company called Highland Electric Transportation, Inc.

There is currently no such company by that name.

If this were an EXTENSION of a previous contract for electric school buses then the name of the company granted the extension would be HET MCPS, LLC.  That's the company the Board of Education voted to award the original electric school bus contract. That's the name on the existing contract. 

Want to see the existing contract? We have a copy. Here is what the first page looks like:

See the name of the company that the Board of Education contracted with to supply electric school buses?  HET MCPS, LLC.

But wait, there's more. The original contract was for FOUR YEARS.

That contract hasn't expired yet.  

Why then is MCPS Superintendent Monifa McKnight requesting a contract extension tomorrow for one year?  The first contract hasn't expired.

Why does MCPS Superintendent Monifa McKnight want a new contract, with a company that doesn't exist, for an unknown number of electric school buses in the middle of the existing contract? 

We can guarantee that this question will not be answered at the Thursday, January 12, 2023, Board of Education meeting.  This item is already on the CONSENT AGENDA which means Board of Education members are being told to unanimously vote approval without questions.

Millions and millions of education dollars are being spent without any accountability, oversight or transparency. How is that working out for MCPS classrooms?