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Plan B RFP (Request for Proposal)

The Attorney General and the Minnesota Dept. of Education directed the School District to work with Let Duluth Vote to draw up a review and comment proposal consistent with our Plan B petition. After meeting with the District's Finance Director, Bill Hanson, to learn how the District would help us we gave the District our a request to consultants to bid on helping us put a review and comment document together. Our RFP allowed for a two stage building plan. The immediate stage would have been for repair of existing buildings. The second stage would have commenced ten years later - if the voters and future school boards wanted to proceed. 

The plan envisioned leasing City parkland for up to $5 million giving a boost to a financially troubled city and the return of unused bonds to taxpayers in the form of reduced taxes. Other unused bond revenue could have been converted to use in the classroom and added to the operations budget.

The District vehemently refused to consider our RFP. The Superintendent explained that it had become the District's plan. Among the things that may have irritated the Superintendent was our RFP's request for public data that had been granted exclusively to Johnson Controls, the Red Plan's designer and eventual project manager. Under the District's contract with JCI it had granted JCI "proprietary" ownership of this presumably because the company had altered it with a corporate formula, copyright or patented process so that revealing it would pose an economic threat to Johnson Controls. For our purposes we felt that public data about the schools would make it less expensive to draw up our plan rather than have to hire people and spend time reacquiring existing information.  The letter sent to Let Duluth Vote said our RFP did not match the petition. Gary Glass has taken a look at this charge and shown that this is not the case.

This is the RFP we presented to the District. This is the District's letter explaining why they wouldn't accept our RFP is linked on the left column. 

Here's the latest history on Plan B with the School Districts ad looking for people to put it together at a time when it can't possibly be put into effect.