It was bad enough that IT Director Monica Wright signed off on a $100,000.00 face-raping of the taxpayers with her ridiculous city council A/V system (for which she only got one bid – Azbell Electronics)…..but it just got worse:
Hidden away in the 20-page bid sheet were several more turds, I’ve discovered. It’s apparently not enough that our august ruling body have access to FOUR 70-inch TV screens in the main council chambers at a cost of $8,595.80. No, they need several more TVs as well – which will be bought by the city!
Below is a screen shot of the council chambers layout from the bid sheet. The upper left corner is labeled “Executive Session” – which is where they can be hidden away from us peons and privately discuss $100,000 single-bid deals, no doubt.
Below that on the left is “Break Room” and right next to that is “Meeting Room”. If you think that all sounds quite redundant, you are correct. They need a break room from the Executive room and the meeting room? Which are both themselves separate from the main council chambers? Very confusing – but they all have TVs in them! It would be barbaric not to!
Azbell Electronics will be providing the FOUR 70-inch, wildly overpriced TVs in the main chamber. But we can’t expect our august leaders to be without a TV if they move into any of the other three rooms! So the Executive Conference Room will have “a city provided 70-inch TV”….the Meeting Room will have another “city provided 70-inch TV” hung on the wall.
And of course, the Break Room will have a dinky, shitty little “city provided 55-inch TV”. The kind of shitty, dinky TV that most taxpayers wish they had in their house. Oh, and the break room TV can be switched to show cable TV.
Sound too crazy to believe?? Here are screen shots from the bid sheet:
So we’re up to SEVEN mighty large TVs for city council! I bet those assholes in Marble Falls don’t even have that many! Lampasas wins again!!!