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CMS says it has no deliverables on two consultant projects
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools says it has no records of work produced by consultant Raki McGregor or of a compliance assessment by law firm Poyner Spruill. The district agreed to pay $220,000 for the assessment, including $132,000 for McGregor’s company.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools says it has no records showing what consultant Raki McGregor or his company, Qonnect LLC, produced for a project tied to affordable housing for teachers, or what came out of a separate compliance assessment by Raleigh law firm Poyner Spruill.
Poyner Spruill hired McGregor in March to consult on the teacher-housing project at a rate of $30,000 a month. CMS says it has no records of work he produced in connection with that project.
The district also says it has no records of a work product from Poyner Spruill’s compliance assessment, which was scheduled for this summer. CMS agreed to pay the firm $220,000 for the assessment; $132,000 of that amount was allocated to a subcontract with Qonnect.
The district’s statement concerns the records it says it holds; it does not, by itself, establish whether work was performed. The missing documentation leaves questions about what the publicly funded projects produced and how their results were assessed.