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<DIV><FONT size=2>I wonder if the proposed agreement has a clause mandating that
UI students be given preference in hiring.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>W.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=kmmos1@verizon.net href="mailto:kmmos1@verizon.net">Ken</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 11, 2010 12:27
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] What the . . .
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<DIV><BR></DIV>On Wednesday 11 August 2010 11:09:08 Tom Hansen wrote:<BR>>
The original purpose of seeking contractual arrangements with private<BR>>
security was to save money and reduce costs of campus security.<BR><BR>That's
called intra-marketing and consensus building.<BR><BR>> Yet, the
contractual arrangement with AlliedBarton, as an addition to MPD's<BR>>
contract (which has already been signed, sealed, and delivered), is
going<BR>> to cost the Idaho tax payer $280,000 more than last
year.<BR><BR>Have you noticed how Allied Barton kinda sounds like
Halliburton?<BR><BR>> This arrangement with AlliedBarton wreaks of
fraud. I get the impression<BR>> that a behind-closed-doors deal may
have already been made between<BR>> AlliedBarton and "the powers that
be".<BR><BR>Does the contract provide for external auditors to examine
AlliedBarton books <BR>for the purpose of determining for what the contract
revenues were expended? <BR>And to determine to which vendors/entities those
public monies were spent?<BR><BR>> Regardless of what was said or done . .
. or what the Idaho tax payer said <BR>> or felt . . . AlliedBarton
(and all of its crookedness) was/is going to be <BR>> contracted as UI's
security, and . . . just as a door prize . . . UI tossed <BR>> in health
care for the AlliedBarton employees . . . ALL AT IDAHO TAX PAYER <BR>>
EXPENSE.<BR><BR>NPR mentioned this morning that the USA now has more than one
contractor for <BR>each soldier in its Afghanistan operations. The suggestion
was that rather <BR>than allowing private contractors to go eastward to hire
Filipino workers to <BR>bring to Afghanistan, the local situation would be
better served if local <BR>people were hired to work in their own communities.
Well, DUH.<BR><BR>Back here in Moscow one does wonder whether, if the
University needs <BR>additional personnel for security duties, it might not be
able to satisfy <BR>those staffing needs from the local, indigenous population
-- perhaps even <BR>from the "student body." And since when are external
contractor management <BR>overheads necessary to supervise that sort of
on-campus
activity?<BR><BR><BR>Ken<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR> List
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