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Board approves retaining longtime legal counsel after RFP review; administration reports steep drop in legal spending
Summary
After administration ran an RFP for legal services, the Waunakee board voted to retain longtime counsel Kurt Strain; administration reported legal expenditures fell from $153,916 last year to $28,614 year to date and proposed a counsel audit of investigation processes.
The Waunakee Community School District's administration recommended and the board approved retaining its long-standing legal counsel after a review of responses to a request for proposals.
Administration staff told the board that the district solicited responses from several firms and evaluated them using a published scoring rubric. Ally, who oversaw the RFP process, said every invited firm submitted proposals and that administrators who regularly work with legal services reviewed and scored the responses.
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