Brenda Casellius is not a 21-year-old fresh-out-of-college gal. She's a highly experienced education veteran. One would expect that her general knowledge (the meaning of red/green traffic lights, how to do laundry, the effect of gravity) of how the world works is better than average, too.
But maybe it's not. Commenting on the huge disparity in bids for demolition of a burned-out school building, Casellius had this to say:
..."We worked with our insurance company, and so the insurance company was working to pay for that funding. So, that wouldn't have been a loss to the district, just so that the public knows that 4.7 was the negotiated rate with the insurance company to pay that," Cassellius said. ...
Umnnhhhh.....
Does Casellius think that insurance companies get their money when it falls from trees?
The District--and a lot of other entities--will pay more in premiums for a long, long, time, to make up that $4.7 million. Yes, it would be a cost to the District.
Further, there is NO excuse for looking at a FOUR MILLION DOLLAR difference in bids on a ~$5 million job and passing it off to "the insurance company."
But that stance--that total lack of curiosity--showed up in MPS a couple of days ago, when the CFO (!!!!) appears to have OK'd a fraudulent money transfer for around $500,000.
It's easy when it's Other People's Money, ain'a, Brenda??
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