MORRISVILLE SCHOOLSDistrict sued for non-payment of work
Posted: Thursday, March 29, 2012 6:11 pm | Updated: 7:25 pm, Thu Mar 29, 2012.
Bucks County Head Start is suing the Morrisville School District for $308,849 for improvements completed at a building it had used and partial reimbursement of rent paid before the district cut short its lease in 2010, according to court documents.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday morning in Bucks County Court. The newspaper was unsuccessful in reaching school district officials Thursday afternoon.
Head Start, a nonprofit group that provides comprehensive social services and early childhood education to needy families and children, had a 20-year lease contract with the district for the use of the former Manor Park School building on Penn Avenue.
That lease was supposed to run from May 1, 1999, to Dec. 31, 2018. For unknown reasons, the district ended the lease on March 29, 2010.
According to the lawsuit, which names former and current school board members, the lease agreement states that if the school district terminated the lease before 2018, it had to pay Head Start the actual costs, minus depreciation, for any building improvements, the lawsuit states. In addition, the district had to pay 40 percent of the amount Head Start has paid the district in rent.
According to court papers, Head Start spent $20,438 for parking lot repairs, $23,358 for boiler gas conversion, another $162,925.60 for the roof replacement, and $55,029.43 for heating and air conditioning repairs and replacement. That totaled $261,751.
Of that, Head Start says the district owes the agency $167,281.71.
Head Start paid $353,952 to the district in rent since 1999; the agency is asking that Morrisville pay 40 percent of that, which totals $141,580, according to the suit.
Head Start demanded payment in a letter to the district dated March 29, 2011. The agency claims the district has refused to fulfill its payment, according to court papers.
In addition to the $308,849, Head Starts wants the district to pay $15,000 in lawyer fees and court costs.
26 comments:
You have got to be effin’ kidding me!!!!! Way to go SOC!!! Great work. What other costly skeletons are there in the closet?
Thanks, Marlys, Bill and Al! Another lawsuit! SOC all the way!
Taxpayers to the rescue to pay for their screwup.
Maryls better get a scooter with a good engine now! Run Forest Run!
This sounds easy. Nine SOC school board members each owe $34,316.56. You play, you pay. Don't screw the taxpayers for your stupidity.
AMEN to that! They could apply some of the money they stiffed Tech to this! No wonder they don't show their faces in the Schools since they were voted out. Except Marlys. That's all the bitter shameless lady has.
Could this have anything to do with why SOC isn't keen on this?
LEGAL SERVICES RFP
Morrisville School District, Bucks County, PA, is seeking a firm to perform legal services for the School District of Borough of Morrisville. Please see our “LEGAL SERVICE RFP” on the school website at www.mv.org. Please direct questions to Paul W. DeAngelo, Business Administrator, School District of Borough of Morrisville, 550 West Palmer St., Morrisville, PA 19067 office 215-736-5932 or preferably by email at pdeangelo@mv.org. Deadline for submission is May 4, 2012.
This couldn't possibly affect the budget and education in the district, right?
Its nice to see all that save the taxpayer bullcrap SOC talks about is just a lie. Save us from the SOC hypicrites.
So does this means that the current legal firm does crap work?
Maybe they just had crap clients.
Marly Mihok said at a school board meeting that she saw vans moving things into Manor Park School. I believe this was in the Aug.-Sept. 2010 timeframe, after the board terminated Head Start's lease. Head Start was, in fact, moving OUT of Manor Park.
I asked for months and months leading up to the termination of the Manor Park lease about its status. The only answer I got was when Mihok told me "we're on it" at some committee meeting. Yeah, they were "on it" all right.
Can the people of Morrisville sue these morons so that they personally cover whatever it costs us to settle with Headstart?
They should pay. They can make all the money back and more by writing, self-publishing, and selling a book about the vast conspiracy to unfairly persecute them just for being so friggin' great.
SOC Deadbeats Strike Again!
Don't rush to judgment. Just watch it unfold with the knowledge that the SOC "brain-trust" is infected with hard-headed liars prone to blaming others for their mistakes. That much really isn't in doubt.
Way to read that lease, Mikey Fitz!
Here’s a headline for tomorrow’s Courier Times: Fitzpatrick misreads lease, costs children and struggling district mega-cash
No response required. Reply unknown. There is no six point plan to be presented to the Administration.
Jon, shouldn't you have waited a year before posting that?
Maybe Fitzpatrick could hold one of those expensive fundraisers for The Morrisville School District. But it would have to be at a plush resort in Florida.
Or the fundraiser he went to at instead of his swearing in?
Must've read the MP lease about as well as his House teabagger patriots read the US Constitution on the House floor - they skipped a few sections.
Re: the Constitution, 'some pages got stuck together'.
They must have been fantasizing about how they were going to serve the fat cats and screw the little guy while useful idiots like Stout, Minder and Mihok shill for them.
"Well, would it be possible to sue you people?"
"Sue me? Why would you sue me? What are talking about?"
"Punitive damages."
"Yeah, but why would you sue me?"
"I don't know, sue everybody!"
Bring your shoes and your glasses...so that you have them.
Some Jerky Boys (and Girls) must have been running the School Board for this to happen.
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