#1 2009-06-17 12:53:45
Wareham's legal budget - now $176,000+ in the hole - took another hit recently when our illustrious ITA authorized an initial $39,990 payment to Audits-R-Us. The two lawyers accompanying the computer geeks billed separately at $11,000.
The audit invoice only covers costs associated with prepping 89 computers and their data extraction. Yet to come are bills for reading, analysis and associated incidentals. Also not included are the costs incurred when Selectmen added countless other computer systems.
Sorry, I'm sick, I feel another Tourettes episode coming on and I'm going back to bed. Hold down the fort, and your lunch.
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#2 2009-06-17 12:55:39
billw, are these bills publicly-available? Do you know the name of the firm performing the work?
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#3 2009-06-17 18:06:55
So just to recap, the witch hunt to find out who has been hurting Bruce's feelings now has a price tag of $51,000
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#4 2009-06-17 22:39:52
billw, the math on those numbers doesn't seem right - we know from the executive session audio snippet that the copying of the drives is $100/drive. Assuming they've just done the copying, 89 systems should be $8,900. Even if there's some baseline time for project management and such, maybe you're looking at $11k. $40k for 90 systems is about $450 per drive, which is insane. Either the number of systems is wrong, the cost per system from the audio is wrong, or the bill is for the entire investigation. $12k in overhead/project management/report writing/expenses on a $27k job is high, but not absolutely unheard of.
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#5 2009-06-17 22:55:23
350 a computer
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#6 2009-06-17 23:12:31
acasualobserver wrote:
billw, the math on those numbers doesn't seem right - we know from the executive session audio snippet that the copying of the drives is $100/drive.
I did the math myself and noticed the same discrepancy. I was passing along verbatim something credible I saw. Saying anything more will compromise the source.
We are, as you all know, dealing with a lot of fear here.
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#7 2009-06-18 07:01:16
Did each lawyer get $11,000? What a rip either way. They just stood there for the most part, or were not even present for the actual work that the techs did in some of the departments anyway. The audit took place the Friday before the Memorial day holiday. Monday all was closed so it resumed Tuesday and they were still working on Thursday. So, at least four days. Could there also be a base fee for the computer company? A fee per computer plus the base?
I figured it would cost at least $40,000, but I'm wondering if we can get an exact cost. Unlike the ragboy, I prefer facts before I go off an a tangent.
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#8 2009-06-18 07:46:33
listen to the audio again. it was 100 dollars read the drive and 250 to copy the drive, so 350 dollars per computer. what they dont say is the cost of the countless hundreds of hours we are paying someone to decipher all the information collected. at 89 computers the BASE cost would be 31,150 dollars.
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#9 2009-06-18 11:49:42
Perhaps we should keep a thread just for these types of examples of fiscal irresponsibility? Someone may have already suggested that but as I have been traveling for a few weeks I can't read all the threads!
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