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Friday, June 26, 2009
Resolutions part 12 - County auditor responds
Butler County Auditor Roger Reynolds has some major concerns with the amount of work done without a contract, and architectural work that apparently was finished months before it was bid out.
This was all uncovered in an ongoing investigation of the county’s relationship with Resolutions, Community Solutions and the renovation of the Court Street jail.
“It’s loose, it’s sloppy, it goes against the Ohio Revised Code,” Reynolds said.
“Butler County can’t just come to you and say I’d like you to be the go between and I’d like you to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in rehabilitating this facility,” Reynolds said. “What I’m going to continue to look into is why isn’t there a contract between Resolutions and the county to perform the rehabilitation work.”
It’s unclear why Resolutions did the work. None of the invoices passed along to the county bills for profit or administrative fees.
Resolutions stood to gain if the county took in more prisoners. But that was the case regardless of who actually renovated the jail. It’s unclear whether the agency kept the tools that it bought and billed the county for.
“Those are items that are defined in a contract. That’s why you have a contract. You define the terms of the construction ahead of time,” Reynolds said.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that if Resolutions was doing the oversight on the jail, somewhere they were being compensated for it.”
Reynolds said he is compiling records to send to the county prosecutor’s office to determine if any laws were broken. County Administrator Tim Williams said the same. Roger Gates, assistant county prosecutor, wouldn’t comment on the issue, citing closed door negotiations with Resolutions.
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