High Dollar Consultants

Why does VBCPS need to pay high dollar consultants when we already have some of the best employees in the country?

*****KLK Consulting (Kathy Kennedy) was hired at the cost of $3000.00 per day. ($43,500)
Sole Source contract was approved on 11/17/17; however, her work began before approval on 10/6/17.  Why was work approved AFTER it had already begun?

Kathy Kennedy worked for Superintendent Spence in Moore Cty NC:  https://www.ncmcs.org/cms/lib/NC01001076/Centricity/Domain/5/Board%20Minutes_March10_2014.pdf

Why was this a sole source contract and not bid through an RFP process?  

******Fran Prolman:  paid $36,000 for 12 days of work:
Another Sole Source contract.

Initially denied by procurement officer on 10/20/17.  Work began on 10/25/17.  Contract later approved on 11/17/17.

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