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SANTA FE - Taxpayers spent $966,000 to equip school buses in New Mexico with Global Positioning System units, but the state's business practices were so shoddy that some of the equipment cannot be accounted for and much of it is not useful, a legislative report has concluded. The Legislative Finance Committee's review of public school transportation found waste, funding formulas that made no sense and a lack of accountability on items as simple as equipment purchases.The state Public Education Department in 2009 awarded a contract to Zonar Systems for 2,350 GPS units that were to be installed in school buses. With this technology, the state's 89 school districts and the PED should have been better able to account for mileage and how much taxpayer money was needed for transportation programs.
It has not worked out that way.
The finance committee found that 100 of the units are missing two years after they were supposed to be installed.
Those units were supposed to go to a company that Zonar subcontracted with to serve as the installer. The job should have been completed in June 2009.
"There is no evidence of receipt, and the shipment used an address that was different from the subcontractor's address," the committee said in its report.
As for the other 2,250 GPS units, some of them may not have arrived either.
That was because billing records only described "the size and weight of seven pallets" delivered to the PED.
The contractor was supposed to submit an inventory to the state for its review and acceptance of the GPS units. But that basic protection for taxpayers did not happen.
Staff members of the PED "reported that they counted all the pallets but did not document verification of the inventory of the actual units." All these problems occurred during the administration of former Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat.
The comedy of errors continued after the bulk of the GPS units arrived, though none of it was funny.
Zonar hired a subcontractor to handle installation. But state overseers "could not provide any concrete documentation that all the units were installed," the legislative report said.
In a separate billing, Zonar charged the state $306,000 for installation of the GPS units on school buses.
In May 2010, Zonar began charging the state an annual subscription fee of $212.25 for every GPS unit. The total price was calculated at more than $498,000, the legislative committee said.
But the fee was for all 2,350 units.
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