Blog note: This Letter to the Editor, printed in the Riverside Press-Enterprise refers to an earlier article about a Riverside County Grand Jury report.
Re
“What did Riverside County get for $35 million consultant”? (Aug. 19):
The
recently published grand jury report on the results (or lack thereof) of
Riverside County’s deal with KPMG is old news to anyone who works for Riverside
County.
For
years, SEIU 721 members like myself have been sounding the alarm that the KPMG
experiment was a waste of time that undermined its own stated goals.
In
no universe was throwing away nearly $35 million on an outside consultant ever
going to save the county money.
Instead
of working with county staff members, who understand all the ins and outs of
serving our county’s 2.5 million residents, to identify ways to improve
efficiency, county leadership instead quarreled with workers constantly and
eagerly pursued KPMG’s “cost savings” ideas.
It’s
fitting that the legacy of our former county supervisors, who preached “fiscal
responsibility” to squeeze every penny they could out of hardworking public
servants, is a $43 million black hole (once you factor in the cancelled
software contract) that did nothing for the people of Riverside County.
At
least they have 50,000 pages of useless analysis to keep them occupied in
retirement.
— David Warpness, La Quinta
August 24, 2020
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