ABSTRACT: “IN RESPONSE to citizen concerns about excess spending, favoritism in the awarding of contracts and mistreatment of employees, the city council decided in closed session Thursday to launch an independent investigation into the allegations.” “Among the shocking revelations that led to this week’s decision was the news that computer consultant Mark Alcock was paid nearly $255,000 more than the council authorized for his investigation of IT manager Steve McInchak and the overall state of the city’s computer system,” according to reporting in The Carmel Pine Cone. In that context, Alcock Contract ASD-PCS-MA-001-2013 Forensic Dated: February 25, 2013, Alcock Contract ASD-PCS-MA-Sec-MA-002-2013 Information Technology Services Dated: May 5, 2013 and Alcock Contract ASD-PCS-MA-Examiner-003-2013 Examiner to coordination of investigations related to IT Dated: June 19, 2013 documents are embedded. Moreover, according to the news article entitled Expert to get $103K for McInchak, audit of city computers By MARY SCHLEY, The Carmel Pine Cone, September 13, 2013, City Administrator Jason Stilwell’s account that the Alcock Contract dated February 2013 was for “risk assessment” contradicted the Search Warrant, filed June 13, 2013, and the actual contract, namely Alcock Contract ASD-PCS-MA-001-2013 Forensic Dated: February 25, 2013. As follows: “But Stilwell said this week that contract (Dated February 25, 2013) was for Alcock’s “risk assessment” of the city’s system, not for his investigation into McInchak’s alleged wrongdoing. For that forensic work, Stilwell said, a second $25,000 contract was drawn.”
“We originally brought Alcock on to survey our system, and we needed someone expert on technology to be able to do a risk assessment of our computer system and the network and applications, hardware, software and user support,” he said. “That was originally why he came in.”“According to Stilwell, a second contract was drafted later, after Alcock uncovered McInchak’s alleged nefarious computer activity. “We also needed his forensic services to support the investigation,” he said. “So we hired him to do that, too,” because the district attorney’s office did not have anyone available to do the work.”
Significantly, according to the City’s Summary of Mark Alcock’s Contracts, September 17, 2014, Alcock Contract ASD-PCS-MA-001-2013 Forensic Dated: February 25, 2013, is “Over contract amount $7,244,” Alcock Contract ASD-PCS-MA-Sec-MA-002-2013 Information Technology Services Dated: May 5, 2013 is “Over contract amount $147,174.29” and Alcock Contract ASD-PCS-MA-Examiner-003-2013 Examiner to coordination of investigations related to IT Dated: June 19, 2013 is “Over Contract amount $99,878.00”for a Total of amount over paid of $254,296.29 of $382,796.29 Total of Invoices to all contracts.
REFERENCE:
Expert to get $103K for McInchak, audit of city computers
By MARY SCHLEY, The Carmel Pine Cone, September 13, 2013
Alcock request 3 of 3.pdf
Alcock Contract ASD-PCS-MA-Examiner-003-2013 Examiner to coordination of investigations related to IT Dated: June 19, 2013
REFERENCE:
Expert to get $103K for McInchak, audit of city computers
By MARY SCHLEY, The Carmel Pine Cone, September 13, 2013
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