Links to legal and consulting expenditures and the Hershner Hunter contract below – but not Amanda Walkup’s charge for investigating LibraryGate, which Doug Park apparently didn’t put in writing.
Dave Hubin’s public records office is the black hole of transparency and trust. They sat on this 5 minute request for 2 weeks. If you want action, email Coltrane’s Chief of Staff Greg Rikhoff (and cc his Interim General Counsel Doug Park, who knows he’s already on thin ice with public records.)
Early the next morning, the documents showing UO’s spending on outside lawyers and consultants arrived. Full dump here. UO is paying out roughly $500K a month for outside lawyers and consultants:
Lawyers:
Consultants:
Hershner Hunter contract, here:
If Doug Park leaves the school on his own or otherwise, thanks to that letter we now know where he will be working.
$500,000 a MONTH? Half a million dollars a MONTH? Is that true, or a typo? If true, SEIU and United Academics can argue conclusively that the well is not dry after all — we have plenty of money!
Right, and again, who needs those stinkin’ graduate students …
“UO is paying out roughly $500K a month for outside lawyers and consultants”
The ~$47K in OASU expenditures each month shouldn’t be counted in that figure because they go to legal help for students and student organizations.