Rockwood State Audit: The Findings Revealed
Lack of ample competitiveness was a major theme of Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich and a team of investigators' full audit report of Rockwood School District, St. Louis County's largest school district, presented Wednesday evening.
Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich said Wednesday evening that Rockwood School District overpaid Glenn Construction company more than $1.2 million for change orders for work not contemplated in original contracts. Several findings need immediate attention, he told the audience of approximately 100 Wednesday night at Lafayette High School in Wildwood. "Many of the findings were not serious or fraud, however. That’s the important factor." Scheich said his staff collectively spent 2,000 hours on the Rockwood audit. "If we would have charged the district to conduct it, which we did not, it would have cost $70,000. We put our top team on it," he said. "I wanted to have our best and most experienced professionals on this one, due to Rockwood's …
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Francis
12:33 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
Jim Glenn did not write the contracts, did not approve the contracts or change orders nor detail the work to be done in each Bond Issue - all these were done by Rockwood administrators and voted upon by the Board of Education. Jim Glenn Construction was brought into Rockwood back when John Oldani was Superintendent and David Glaser was CFO - because the previous work was poorly done and resulted … more ›