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Saturday, June 13, 2009
Resolutions Part 5 - The contracts
The first stories about Butler County’s dealings with Resolutions, Community Solutions broke on Tuesday. They were about $1.4 million in utility payments commissioners say they don’t remember approving, a cost savings deal that ended up costing nearly $400,000.
You can see the stories here and here.
In the wake of Sheriff Richard K. Jones closing the jail, we rushed to get this story out. But there were still numerous unanswered questions about Resolutions. Most of all, there was a shortage of contracts with the company, even though they had done millions of dollars of work for the county.
And documentation had begun to emerge, pursuant to a public records request I had put in with the county before. This included the county’s contract with Resolutions for the minimum security jail, which dated back to 1989. Here they are:
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And here is the county’s only other contract with Resolutions, for a court diversion program that ended in 2004:
This is it, according to the county. Note that there are no contracts for the renovation of the Court Street jail, which Resolutions oversaw.
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