Safe to say if no one can find the contract, then maybe there isn’t a contract.
That being the case, the School Committee denied reconsideration, 0-9, of the For Kids Only (FKO) contract extension, and approved a plan by Supt. Priya Tahiliani to put out to open bid the after-school services program. The move doesn’t eliminate FKO – whose local providers in the schools get great reviews from parents who use the service – from bidding on the programming, but it also opens it up to other providers who may offer new and different services.
The Committee voted last fall to put the after-school programming out to open bid, and that stoked a great deal of controversy from the City and from parents who overwhelming like the in-school, after-school program. Committeeman Allen Panarese filed for reconsideration of the vote because there was uncertainty as to whether FKO held an existing three year contract already – one that would supposedly expire next year.