{"id":10135,"date":"2018-04-17T15:07:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T19:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10135"},"modified":"2018-04-17T15:07:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T19:07:13","slug":"reznik-calls-on-board-of-public-works-to-reject-shadow-government-highway-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10135","title":{"rendered":"Reznik Calls on Board of Public Works to Reject “Shadow Government” Highway Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n

Delegate Kirill Reznik (D-39) has written to the Board of Public Works asking them to reject an engineering and management contract awarded by the Maryland Department of Transportation for its planned expansion of the Capital Beltway and I-270.\u00a0 According to the Washington Post<\/a>, the winning consortium included a former employer of the state’s Secretary of Transportation and was awarded the contract despite finishing second in its written proposal.\u00a0 The Secretary did not vote directly on the contract, but he had dinner with a representative of his former employer and obtained an ethics clearance after the award was made.\u00a0 Post reporter Michael Laris described the bidding process as “expedited and unusual” and wrote:<\/p>\n

The winning firms, known collectively as the \u201cgeneral engineering consultant,\u201d would act as something of a shadow government for the Maryland Department of Transportation, which says its plan to hire firms to build, finance and maintain toll lanes is too big and complex to govern itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Referring to much of the above, Delegate Reznik said he was “incredibly alarmed” and asked the Board of Public Works to “restart the process in an open, fair, public, and transparent way, without the involvement of potential conflicts, and only after the public has had an opportunity to weigh in.”\u00a0 We reprint his letter below.<\/p>\n

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By Adam Pagnucco. Delegate Kirill Reznik (D-39) has written to the Board of Public Works asking them to reject an engineering and management contract awarded by the Maryland Department of Transportation for its planned expansion of the Capital Beltway and I-270.\u00a0 According to the Washington Post, the winning consortium included a former employer of the … Continue reading Reznik Calls on Board of Public Works to Reject “Shadow Government” Highway Contract<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,85,38],"tags":[1545,1509,1164,1990],"class_list":["post-10135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-kirill-reznik","category-transportation","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-kirill-reznik","tag-maryland-department-of-transportation","tag-transportation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2Dt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10140,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135\/revisions\/10140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}