Library spends more to accomodate friends

Fountaindale Library spends more to hire friends as contractors then to hire internally.  A look at their most recent available financials show that two companies are making a killing in profits.  They can do this as "outsourcing" instead of internal hiring.

A common example is to hire a computer consultant for $250,000 per year when an internal candidate would have been paid $50,000.00. 

Fountaindale library has been paying two contractors exorbitant fees to work for the residents.  The first contractor is Karen Anderson, whose title changes with the seasons in order to keep her on the high payroll.  Raking in a nice municipal retirement fund for leaving the library, she now rakes in additional as an overpaid consultant.

The second company is the GAD Group.  According to Library Financials, The GAD Group charged the library/ residents over $130K for 10 months of web deign and hosting services.

They list their monthly expense to host the service at $1500 per month for content management.  They list their Monthly managed care services at an additional $8,750.00 per month. Total costs per month are over $10G for the library to have a small and easily manageable web site.

So where were the bids before contracting these services?  Most web developers make approx. $45-$60K per year full time.  The web site is definitely not a full time project.  Could this payment be a payment to a friend? 

The owner of GAD group is Mr. Greg Dover. (Gregory Dover - Partner, Chief Technology Officer)

Greg serves on the Workforce Investment Board of Will County and is connected all the way at the top with Larry Walsh down to being an IT employee of Roger Claar's at the Village. He does the web site for the Rotary Club of Bolingbrook and the Valley View Educational Enrichment Foundation. 

When will we stop paying more for services that are not being sent out for proper bidding?  When we stop hiring political friends....