An internal city audit of purchasing at the Fayette County Detention Center raises questions about the jail’s discretionary spending account, the facility’s computer operating system and the Lexington company that developed it.
Jail officials paid Cottrell Consulting, a small software development company, more than $752,000 between 1999 and 2008 for software development work at the jail, including $451,476 that was paid out of a discretionary Phone Revenue Account, according to the audit.
The audit recommends closing that account, which previously operated at the discretion of the Community Corrections director and still has a balance of $1.24 million. The money would be transferred to the city’s general fund.
The jail’s contract with Cottrell Consulting wasn’t approved by the mayor, as required by the city’s charter, and sometimes did not go through the mandated competitive bidding process, the audit found.
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