The Salvation Army apparently received a multi million dollar contract on a handshake.
The relevant testimony on S.B.100 is copied here. (Clitheroe is misspelled "Clithroe")
[The testimony was removed from the Alaska Legislature website in January.]
APOC is the state office responsible for investigating improper lobbying in Juneau. Maybe APOC [Alaska Public Offices Commission] should take a look?
Interestingly, APOC's investigator is...
... the long term partner of someone who would not benefit from an investigation of Salvation Army finances.
The investigator's partner is the influential Anchorage citizen on the "Favors" page.
The Governor signed Senate Bill 100 on July 17th, 2007. here / orig
The relevant testimony on S.B.100 is copied here. (Clitheroe is misspelled "Clithroe")
[The testimony was removed from the Alaska Legislature website in January.]
- It looks like the Salvation Army was given a huge windfall [a 5 year, $1.9 million dollar per year contract] without any competition.
- Snuck into the middle of hundreds of pages of testimony is this:
" SENATOR BUNDE asked if Clitheroe would run the pilot program.
[The Clitheroe representative] said he assumes his facility
would have a very high interest in working with this project. "
- There are many facilities that would be interested in that project.
- Akeela has more experience with that type of client. They would do a better job.
- Why would a senator invite an Alaska API employee to give testimony, then casually ask if another organization that individual is coincidentally associated with would be interested in the financial benefits of the project? It looks very much like a scripted event.
APOC is the state office responsible for investigating improper lobbying in Juneau. Maybe APOC [Alaska Public Offices Commission] should take a look?
Interestingly, APOC's investigator is...
... the long term partner of someone who would not benefit from an investigation of Salvation Army finances.
The investigator's partner is the influential Anchorage citizen on the "Favors" page.
The Governor signed Senate Bill 100 on July 17th, 2007. here / orig
- The Salvation Army representative gives a very false picture of the financial situation at Clitheroe. See money, funding, statistics. Clitheroe collects a significant amount of money from insurance and other providers, in addition to the large grants it gets from state and federal government.
If you want to send the Governor an email asking for an investigation, her email link is on the upper right of the "proclamations" page.
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
-- Lily Tomlin
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
-- Lily Tomlin