So…I have searched every set of minutes and City Council packets from August 2014 (when Broadcast Works was awarded a $34,000 A/V contract for the new council chambers) all the way up to March 2017 (when Monica Wright appeared in a city council meeting and informed us all that Azbell would be doing the (no bid) work…which ended up being quoted at $84,000 – which quickly became $96,000)…and guess what?
Not a SINGLE mention of Azbell Electronics in all those thousands of pages. Not one. No mention in the minutes…the packets…Monica’s monthly IT report (where it lists everything she has been up to, like buying refrigerators)….nowhere at all. It apparently just happened magically one day. Everyone just woke up one morning and forgot about Broadcast Works simultaneously, I guess.
That tells me this decision had to happen in one of those “closed-door, executive council sessions” I keep reading about. Far away from the prying eyes of taxpayers. There is simply no way Monica would be allowed to make this big of a decision on her own. It had to come from City Council, the mayor and/or Finley deGraffenreid. There is no other possibility.
So, the question is….who and why?