COUNTY TO ALTER NONPROFIT PACT RULES.Byline: David Bloom David Bloom (May 22, 1963 – April 6, 2003) was an NBC journalist (co-anchor of Weekend Today and reporter) until his sudden death in 2003 at the age of 39. Early life Daily News Staff Writer The county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. ordered new controls Tuesday over its contractual relationships with nonprofit foundations operating $32 million worth of grant-funded public health programs. ``These foundations are valuable but in some cases, we were overutilizing them or were utilizing them inappropriately,'' said Supervisor Gloria Molina. A recent Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract Department internal audit found that public health officials were using contracts with JWCH JWCH Janet Weis Children's Hospital (Danville, PA) Institute Inc. and Public Health Foundation Enterprises Inc. as a way to get around county rules on hiring, contracting, purchasing, leasing and more. As a result, the audit found county taxpayers were saddled with purchases that cost too much, leases that may be unnecessary, excessive overhead charges, hazily drawn subcontractor agreements and automatically renewed contracts with no rebidding or performance evaluations. The audit also cited a possible conflict of interest involving one of many current and former county employees who also work for or are on the governing boards of the two foundations. The supervisors' motion, approved 3-0 with Supervisors Zev Yaroslavsky and Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San absent, requires the department to work with the Chief Administrative Office, county counsel and the Auditor-Controller's Office to develop new standards on such contracts. The new guidelines will have to limit such contracts to those jobs the county can't do, require each contract to be cost-effective and competitively bid, safeguard against conflicts of interest and reduce overhead costs overhead costs see fixed costs. . The board also approved an amendment by Supervisor Deane Dana ordering the creation of a way to monitor such contracts on an ongoing basis. |
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