Posted on 12/17/2007 6:28:10 PM PST by Loud Mime
Ten months after installing a new computerized payroll process that has been roiled by glitches, Los Angeles Unified officials now say costs for fixing the system and completing its rollout could top $210 million.
The system, with an original price tag of $95 million, has underpaid or overpaid thousands of employees, and last week district officials said hiring consultants to fix it has already ballooned the cost to $132.5 million.
And some officials are questioning the district's transparency on all the costs associated with the system, noting that at least $6 million will be forfeited by allowing some overpaid teachers to keep the money.
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This news will be growing....there's corruption in them thar halls
They just won’t get paid for several months...and those who didn’t get paid may never see their wages.
UA/LSD ???
LMAO!!!
Standard operating procedure at LA Mummified!
EVERYTHING SCREWED UP!
Hey, it's Los Angeles. It's California. Nobody cares.
You have a noteworthy personal page on FR. Good Stuff!
Ya ever go to any big city hall? There are thousands of employees that spend all day long just wandering around as if lost. It’s really amazing.
Why, thank you!
Must be nice to write a government contract. Somehow I don’t think I’d get away with selling something to my private-sector customers and then telling them they had to pay 150% of the purchase price to a third party to get the product to do what I said it would do. Seriously, how is the original vendor not on the hook to make the system work as promised?
Absolutely standard operating procedure for Caleefornia, and my answer is as series as your question!
A friend of mine works for the County Surveyors, he says that there’s several people on the staff who may put in three hours of work a day.
...and they’re earning retirement too...
Let’s see 40 hours x $15/hour = $600 Pay me!
Their security is pretty impressive. At LAUSD they even call it "headquarters". They got several dozen cops at the entrance as if they're waiting to be stormed or invaded, with x-ray machines, scanners, bomb detectors, cameras, vicious dogs at the ready...LA City hall is even better...Looks like the entrance to Guantanamo, only more secure.
Government schools in action!! Waste your money and demand for more “for the children!”
How long will the parents keep trusting these idiocrats?
You can bet the system properly deducted NEA union dues.
“Seriously, how is the original vendor not on the hook to make the system work as promised?”
Usually on large implementations like this its a combination of over promising and the customer being inept. Its very difficult to deploy these and a lot depends on the customer.
Most likely the product will do what they said it would. Its just not mapped to the processes properly.
If the NEA had a stake in missing payroll deductions we’d see action...and lawsuits.
Wonder how many books you could buy for $210 million.
27 years I have been involved in software. Before most of the world even knew what software was.
This is inexcusable.
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