Coronavirus emergency spending of taxpayer funds for goods and services lacks transparency
Spending watchdogs acknowledge that state governments are under immense pressure to secure medical supplies during times of crisis.
Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn., said the public is generally forgiving of “decisions made on the fly in an emergency,” but that transparency is paramount. Details on many other state deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars have been similarly hard to come by. The state agreed last month to pay $2.8 million to a Pennsylvania outfit called Arnold’s Used Office Furniture to supply face masks to the corrections department.
The state’s public health department offered few details about the contract and is reviewing The Times’ request for its release, a spokeswoman said.
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