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<DIV>If there is a way to waste more money, UI will find it even if they have to hire an administrator to contract a firm to outsource a private company to select a board to appoint an exploratory committee to discover it. </DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan Arnold<BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 4/1/11, lfalen <I><lfalen@turbonet.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: <SPAN>lfalen</SPAN> <lfalen@turbonet.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Oh, My EYES :-( Plumber's Butt, the UI, and AlliedBarton<BR>To: "Saundra Lund" <v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm>, vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 11:24 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>The UI is real good at wasting money. They used hired a new Dean of the Graduate School from outside. the interim Dean was just fine.<BR>Roger<BR>-----Original message-----<BR>From: "Saundra Lund" <A href="http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm" ymailto="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</A><BR>Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:50:52 -0700<BR>To: <A href="http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>Subject: [Vision2020] Oh, My EYES :-( Plumber's Butt, the UI,and AlliedBarton<BR><BR>> Perhaps someone at the UI should PLEASE let whoever is hiring those fine<BR>> hard-working AlliedBarton security professionals (!) know that Moscow<BR>> actually has an ordinance prohibiting plumber's butt. Ordinance 2002-13.<BR>> <BR>> In all fairness, I didn't actually see the dude's
"cleft of the buttocks" on<BR>> the weekend, for which I'll be eternally grateful. But, it was horrifyingly<BR>> close & *very* unprofessional. And it ***definitely*** wasn't a positive<BR>> reflection on the UI.<BR>> <BR>> OTOH, I've seen MPD officers on campus many times over the years, and they<BR>> always looked professional & behaved professionally as well, which<BR>> apparently isn't always the case with the AB employees.<BR>> <BR>> I've heard through the grapevine that the brilliant <sarcasm> decision to<BR>> hire AB to save money is actually costing more than anticipated. I can't<BR>> say as I'm surprised because that often seems to be the case at the UI:<BR>> things that are supposed to save money wind up costing more, especially when<BR>> it comes to contracts with the private sector. In the past, I found it very<BR>> easy to deal with the UI with respect to public
records requests, but that's<BR>> unfortunately not been the case since Kent Nelson was hired as General<BR>> Counsel. Other than finding creative ways to thwart public records<BR>> requests, I'm not exactly sure what it is he does since the UI contracts out<BR>> so much of its legal work, but making access to public records difficult if<BR>> not impossible certainly has the bonus of making sure we-the-taxpayers<BR>> remain ignorant about whether all these cost-savings measures are actually<BR>> saving money or losing it.<BR>> <BR>> So much for the UI's pledge for transparency & accountability following the<BR>> deplorable history of serious financial mismanagement. Seriously, though,<BR>> Pollyanna me thought that "pledge" was going to last longer than a New York<BR>> minute.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Saundra Lund<BR>> Moscow, ID<BR>> <BR>> The only thing necessary for the triumph of
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