{"id":2794,"date":"2010-02-07T23:41:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T04:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2010-02-07T23:44:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T04:44:13","slug":"closing-the-door-after-all-the-horses-get-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2794","title":{"rendered":"Closing the barn door after the horses get loose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the School Board has come close to completing the Red Plan without ever once paying any heed to its policies on bidding its occurred to the Administration that its time to change all the policies they ignored over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>In a jam packed agenda for the Monday Business Committee meeting including change orders, new contracts and loads of spending they&#8217;ve tucked in changes to the bidding policy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>3.<br \/>\nPolicies and Regulations<br \/>\nA.<br \/>\nPolicies<br \/>\n1)<br \/>\nModification of Policy 3075 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Requests for Proposals \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Second Reading Administration is requesting that Policy 3075 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Requests for Proposals be modified as submitted. Recommendation: It is recommended that the Duluth School Board approve the modification of Policy 3075.<br \/>\n2)<br \/>\nModification of Regulation 3075R \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Requests for Proposals Please note that administration is planning to modify Regulation 3075R \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Requests for Proposals, conditioned upon the board approving changes to Policy 3075, in order to ensure that the Regulation is consistent with the intent of the policy.<br \/>\n3)<br \/>\nDeletion of Policy 3076 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Soliciting Prices (Bids and Quotations) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Second Reading Administration is requesting that Policy 3076 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Soliciting Prices (Bids and Quotations) be deleted. Recommendation : It is recommended that the Duluth School Board Policy 3076 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Soliciting Prices (Bids and Quotations) be deleted.<br \/>\n4)<br \/>\nDeletion of Policy 3080 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Award of Contracts \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Second Reading Administration is requesting that Policy 3080 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Award of Contracts be deleted.<br \/>\nRecommendation: It is recommended that the Duluth School Board delete Policy 3080 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Award of Contracts.<br \/>\nDuluth Public Schools, ISD 709 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 215 North First Avenue East \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Duluth, MN 55802 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 (218) 336-8752<br \/>\n5)<br \/>\nDeletion of Policy 3085 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Quotations for Professional Services &#8211; Second Reading Administration is requesting that Policy 3085 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Quotations for Professional Services be deleted.<br \/>\nRecommendation: It is recommended that the Duluth School Board Policy3085 &#8211; Quotations for Professional Services be deleted.<br \/>\n6)<br \/>\nPolicy 9105 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Official Publications \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Second Reading Administration is requesting that the name of the publisher within the policy be changed to reflect changes in ownership of the Duluth News Tribune.<br \/>\nRecommendation: It is recommended that the Duluth School Board approve the changes to Policy 9105 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Official Publications as attached.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The meeting is Monday at 4:30 PM in the old auditorium on the second floor of Old Central. It could be interesting. The Trib will be sure to miss it because they never miss a good opportunity to cover news in the District. However,  with two new school board members infected with a little curiosity the Administration might have to perform some fancy double talk to get through the meeting. As an added plus from now on all the remaining old board members won&#8217;t be able to skip meetings for fear the Administration will lose its rubber stamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the School Board has come close to completing the Red Plan without ever once paying any heed to its policies on bidding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}