Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake defended a fresh award of $423,000 to a consulting group (PFM Group) that helped prepare her 10-year financial plan, saying the consultant has already saved the city “tens of millions of dollars.”
Asked why the city still needed consultants after the financial plan was completed, Director of Finance Harry E. Black said, “[We] want to tap into their services and support as it relates to the implementation phase of the project. What this amendment to the contract does, it basically extends it to another year and makes it available to us as needed and to provide various sorts of analytical support.”
—excerpted from an article at BaltimoreBrew by Mark Reutter and Fern Shen. BaltimoreBrew is an online journal featuring independent reporting and informed commentary about greater Baltimore
