Delaware County Board Chairman Eisel is satisfied with 30-year no-bid automatically renewed contracts to his friends

I continue to publish records provided by NYS Comptroller regarding audit of no-bid contracts in Delaware County (NY).

Here is the interview with the Board of Supervisors James Eisel.

Eisel stated that contracts in Delaware County bypass public bidding and are "renewed based on the fact that historically, the vendor has been providing that service in a satisfactory fashion to the County".

Just how satisfactory is the "fashion", can be demonstrated by the number of supervisors on the board of directors of the largest "vendor" of Delaware County, the non-profit Delaware Opportunities, Inc., and by the statement of Marjorie Miller that at least two contracts she knows of were awarded without bidding to Eisel's personal friends - the coroner (at an inflated price) and an unnamed friend who leased the Treadwell school building.

Eisel was "not aware of fraud or abuse".

At the same time, Eisel blocked my FOIL request for this very same information that I am publishing now, so I had to obtain it from another source, the New York State Comptroller's office.

Of course, the person who is involved, neck-deep, in the fraud and abuse, will not see it if it is screaming in his face. 

Since, according to the same records, Delaware County employees (including its Assistant County Attorney Carl Becker) did not provide conflict-of-interest disclosures nor filed financial statements for public review, for all the years when no-bid contracts were awarded and automatically renewed, the claim of Eisel and other supervisors that there is no "fraud or abuse" involved, are unverifiable until and unless such statements are collected and an investigation going back 30 years is conducted.