My ex used to do some auditing at LA city. Usually these contractors are vehicles to give tons of money to well connected friends of the city council or mayor

My ex used to do some auditing at LA city. Usually these contractors are vehicles to give tons of money to well connected friends of the city council or mayor for services like “consulting” and “management”. They also have large amounts of middle management. In one case social workers couldn’t handle the number of required visits per week (I think they each had 30 clients or more). The solution was to hire more consultants and project managers to analyze the situation instead of hiring people to reduce the workload to reasonable levels.