More on Sam Simon and Amanda

I am not certain as to all of what happened re the S/N vans, but the two links below indicate Sam Simon won a three year contract for City S/N services in 2005. Amanda lost.

It appears that Sam Simon wasn’t able to do as many spay/neuter surgeries as required by the contract and asked to be let out. They were supposed to take over the South LA S/N clinic until a proper RFP for that location was published.

Amanda assumed Sam Simon’s contract to run the van, but it appears San Simon never took over the South LA clinic and has continued to provide S/N services at a lower rate than the contract. Sam Simon has never been paid out of the voucher fund, but out of “the other revenues of the Spay and Neuter Trust fund.”

In 2004 I looked into those funds and revenue sources and there were 4-5 separate funds, each almost in a lock box where monies could not be shifter around. I don’t know what the situation is now.

However, on the face of it, Sam Simon did jump through the RFP hoop as did Amanda, and Amanda took over Sam Simon’s contract and has done a great job. That Sam Simon has continued to provide services paid out of some other fund, not the voucher or the van fund, does not seem to present a problem, does it?

http://www.laanimalservices.com/pdf/commission/Archive/061206Agd.pdf

http://www.laanimalservices.org/PDF/commission/2008/Board%20Report-%20Mobile%20SN%20clinic.pdf