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More controversy as Broward looks to begin $800 million school construction program

Pictures of water build up under a leaky roof in an outside hallway at Fort Lauderdale’s Northeast High School that were used to push for passage of last year’s bond issue. (Photo: NBC6)

By William Hladky, FloridaBulldog.org, for SouthFloridaReporter.com, July 1, 2015 – The controversy surrounding the Broward School District’s $800-million bond construction program continues with an allegation of another Sunshine Law violation, and a question as to why the same company was ranked first for two offsetting contracts designed to check and balance each other.

Nathalie Lynch-Walsh, chair of the district’s civilian-advisory Facilities Task Force, accused the district of the Sunshine Law violation in a June 6 email to the school board. Her complaint later prompted school officials to hold another meeting in an attempt to “cure” the apparent violation.

Lynch-Walsh claimed the district violated the sunshine law on June 2 after two selection committees specially created to choose who will oversee bond-issue spending announced they’d “shortlisted” companies for three lucrative contracts to manage the district-wide construction projects.

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