<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Bill,<div><br></div><div>I agree that the paper has finally found some "testicular fortitude" in this matter. I also wonder what "we", the taxpayers would have gotten if say another 200k was in the Police Department contract? </div><div><br></div><div>IF that was even an option put out in the bidding process, what would an equal number of reserve police officers, with "real" police powers vs "rent-a-witnesses" have added to the Police contract?</div><div>I'm thinking that the city was snookered during the bidding process, based on the "we need to put this out for bid and save money" tune that the university was singing at the time.</div><div><br></div><div>Yes, I was in favor of a separate "University Police Department", with real training and standards and police powers, and have no problem with the city getting the police contract, but I think both the citizens of Moscow</div><div>and the university community were done a disservice by what actually happened. So, for less money (the city contract) we get less real police services, and with the additional AlliedBarton contract, we get</div><div>"security guards" that have no authority ( the 300-400k contract), bringing the total to more than what it would have cost had the city been able to "bid" on what the University really wanted.</div><div><br></div><div>So, I'll throw this out to the entire Vision 2020 community, what has to be done to get some meaningful oversight? Tom and Shirley, can you look into this debacle as our legislatures?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 16, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Bill London wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" bgcolor="#ffffff" vlink="purple"><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Saundra--</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">I agree with you that the UI has blown it big time, but I would like to point out one bit of good news in this mess.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">The Daily News editorial page -- and the entire paper actually -- has been mainlining testosterone. The editorial you quote below is a good example. This editorial has a gutsy, community perspective, clearly stated. With a new administrative team in place at the DN, the paper is back. And I am very glad to welcome them.......</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">BL</font></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm" href="mailto:v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Saundra Lund</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">vision2020@moscow.com</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, August 16, 2010 8:52 AM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Vision2020] Daily News OUR VIEW: UI's disdain for citizens whofund it is appalling</div><div><br></div><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt; ">Many thanks to the friend who sent this to me!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt; ">I think this editorial hits the nail squarely on the head: Mues is not only utterly unqualified for his position at the UI, he is also fundamentally unsuited to work for a public institution where public accountability & transparency are crucial. This is just the most recent in a string of sneaky decisions that track back to him where those outside of the administration are kept in the dark before -- after decisions -- are made. I can just see Mues sitting behind his desk at the UI rubbing his hands together in glee at the coup of keeping the whole AlliedBarton issue secret until it was too late for anyone to have any effective input.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt; ">I agree with the editorial that while this kind of crapola is suitable at a private college, it is wholly inappropriate at a public institution where even UI’s top administrators are accountable to those who pay their salaries, and that would be we-the-taxpayers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt; ">Further, there’s something grossly obscene about the UI’s decision to pay a private security contractor nearly $400K during these tough financial times where student fees were just jacked up 9.5%, programs have been cut<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>into<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>the bone, severe understaffing of all but the top level of administration is rampant, and all faculty & staff but those making less than a living wage in Idaho – a paltry $22,360 – were forced to take a very real pay cut in the form of mandatory furloughs.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt; ">Saundra Lund<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt; ">Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt; ">The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak out for themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt; ">~ Jane Goodall<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">-----------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 24pt; ">OUR VIEW: UI's disdain for citizens who fund it is appalling<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Posted on: Monday, August 16, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; ">We apparently are too stupid to consider properly how the University of Idaho plans to spend our money.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; ">The university is trying to upgrade its security services, and it turns out that is going to cost a lot more money, some $300,000 more, than it took last year when it was all handled by the Moscow Police Department.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; ">What is the necessity for that upgrade? What dire risks are facing our local institution of higher learning to require this substantial increase in spending of public tax dollars. It must be pretty important, considering the budget-cutting going on throughout government, including our colleges and universities.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; ">When Daily News reporter Holly Bowen asked that question Tuesday, before the increase had been approved, she was told the UI was "not making anyone available." There would be no comment on this big increase in state spending until after Thursday's meeting of the Idaho State Board of Education where the proposal was to be considered, approved and funded.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; ">After that meeting - where the proposal was indeed approved - Lloyd Mues, UI vice president for finance and administration, explained pompously and vacuously, "The absolute best thing we can do in a process like this, as with any of them, is all of that negotiation and all of that communication is pretty private."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Gee, Mr. Mues, we thought the UI was pretty public, actually. There are many pretty private colleges around here, but not the UI.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; ">But what about those serious security threats we have to pay $300,000 a year to stop?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Mues again: "Every now and then, someone will decide they want to drive across the Administration Building lawn in a four-wheel drive." He apparently was perfectly serious.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; ">So, will a heavily armed vehicular deterrence team be roaming campus?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; ">No, it turns out this expenditure will pay for one to three unarmed security guards to roam campus on foot around the clock.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; ">It's no wonder the university didn't want the press or taxpayers asking serious questions about this proposal before it was approved.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; ">-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Lee Rozen</b>, for the editorial board<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; margin-right: 0in; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><hr><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; margin-right: 0in; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.fsr.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.fsr.net</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================</blockquote>=======================================================<br>List services made available by First Step Internet,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.fsr.net</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <br> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================</div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>