Last Monday's Revised Agenda Finally Posted

From: egillen476@aol.com [egillen476@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 2:28 PM
To: School Board Email list
Cc: Dr. Timothy Steinhauer; Cissy Bowman
Subject: Change order GC63-131

Elaine,
You say that you are being transparent and that everything is on the
website. Please send me a link to the posted Change Order GC63-131 to
Nello Construction for $150,000 for Winterization. As of 2:20 PM, the
agenda from Monday's meeting does not indicate such a change order.
Elaine Gillen

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From: Elaine Cappucci <ECappucci@mtlsd.net>
To: egillen476 <egillen476@aol.com>; School Board Email list
<SchoolBoardEmaillist@mtlsd.net>
Cc: Dr. Timothy Steinhauer <TSteinhauer@mtlsd.net>; Cissy Bowman
<CBowman@mtlsd.net>
Sent: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 3:28 pm
Subject: RE: Change order GC63-131

Elaine,

I believe I was speaking about budget documents when I said everything
is on the website.  The change order documents, like most other
contracts and documents of that type are not all posted on the website,
but are public and available for your review through a Right to Know
request.

The change order you reference was on the revised agenda at the regular
board meeting on Monday, June 17th.  It was discussed and acted upon
publicly at that meeting and the meeting is being shown on the cable
channel.


For the Board,

Elaine Cappucci
President, Mt. Lebanon School Board
ecappucci@mtlsd.net
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From: egillen476 <egillen476@aol.com>
To: ECappucci <ECappucci@mtlsd.net>; SchoolBoardEmaillist <SchoolBoardEmaillist@mtlsd.net>
Cc: TSteinhauer <TSteinhauer@mtlsd.net>; CBowman <CBowman@mtlsd.net>; **********
Sent: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 5:28 pm
Subject: RE: Change order GC63-131

Looks like you had a change of heart, Elaine. Thank you for finally posting the revised agenda. I am well aware of the fact that it was discussed at the meeting and acted upon publicly, but no notice was given to the public until David Huston brought it to the public's attention.
Elaine Gillen

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Here is the link to the School Board Meeting Agendas. It may say that the agenda was revised 06/17/13, but it wasn't posted until this afternoon, 06/20/13.

It just keeps getting better and better

I have uploaded the podcast to tonight's meeting.  David Huston called to let me know that a change order was slid in tonight and was a new agenda item. It did not appear on today's agenda.  The agenda item was Change Order #GC63-131 to Nello Construction - Winterization for $150,000.

Please go to the 20:26 mark on the Lebo Citizens podcast and listen to Mr. Huston ask Elaine Cappucci about the new agenda item. Elaine explained that last month's winterization change order for $75,000, of which Dan Remely went ballistic over, was their first good faith offer to Nello Construction. Since then (somewhere between last Friday and today since the agenda did not show this), they negotiated another $150,000 for a total of $225,000.

Resident Bruce Slater was also upset about this latest move by the school board. Last week, only four change orders were discussed and this was not one of them.

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