The Trib’s story today on the current situation in the taxpayer’s lawsuit against the District and JCI concludes with this critical observation from the U of M Law School teacher Brad Clary:
“But no one should read too much or too little into that. This is simply a preliminary ruling on what is currently before the court. The court has not made up its mind on the ultimate merits of the argument.â€
The taxpayers have not received discovery. Now that the motion to dismiss the taxpayer’s attorney is out of the way the two month dawdling delay by JCI and ISD 709 in providing the public data which has been demanded since the case was brought to the Sixth District Court must be honored. The plaintiffs have provided far more than the law would have required in discovery to the District as an act of good faith. Now its their turn.
We want to see what is in the public record. Considering that the District lied to the public from the beginning about the compensation for their little sweetheart deal with Johnson Controls – It was only 4.5% then 13% and now 18% not counting guaranteed sales of multimillion dollar chillers and generous long term maintenance contracts – I don’t blame the District for hiding behind its lawyers. We will have a field day when this public date is finally provided to us so long as there is no unfortunate accidental loss of data because a JCI techie spilt coffee on a hard drive.
There will be an army of people curious to see what’s in the public record. The District opened my email records inside out so that they could see every jot and tittle I’d written in regards to our cause and this is the best they could come up with. Look for my full reply in the Saturday Budgeteer.
