> He'd been doing it over over 20 years before he was given the contract. I'm not seeing the part where $368,000 bought anything of value for the tax payer. >

> He'd been doing it over over 20 years before he was given the contract. I'm not seeing the part where $368,000 bought anything of value for the tax payer. > Also what does fair and reasonable consideration mean, more hoops of paper should have been jumped through before making this decision? I don't know what more hoops of paper means. It's not rocket science or some massive burden to procure services properly. That's half of what local governments do.