Two Oakland County employees will lose their jobs in ZaydLogix fallout

Two Oakland County staff will lose their jobs and two others face disciplinary motion after a $450,000 worker contract was investigated and terminated.

County officers introduced the actions Friday afternoon with an inventory of job titles with out names and the kind of self-discipline:

• A CLEMIS supervisor, recognized in public paperwork as EJ Widun, was suspended with out pay for 4 weeks and can resign from the province efficient Friday, November 7.

• The founding father of ZaydLogix, recognized by The Oakland Press in public paperwork as Shukur Mohammad, was suspended with out pay for 4 weeks and can resign from his place within the province efficient Nov. 14.

• The IT director, recognized by The Oakland Press in public paperwork as Rob Davenport, was suspended for 3 days with out pay.

• The contract reviewer who reviewed and authorized the contract was suspended for 2 days with out pay.

The fallout from ZaydLogix’s staffing contract started when an nameless tipster alerted county officers on July 3 that the corporate was based by a present county worker. It’s in opposition to county coverage and state regulation for a authorities worker to have an out of doors contract with their authorities employer.

Inside days the contract was canceled; County officers famous that ZaydLogix didn’t obtain funds and that contractors employed by the corporate had been transferred to different staffing businesses with county contracts. ZaydLogix supplied 5 technical workers for the county’s courts and regulation enforcement administration info programs (CLEMIS).

In July, provincial officers mentioned disciplinary motion can be according to the province’s advantage guidelines and any collective bargaining agreements. The province’s 4 disciplinary choices:

• an oral or written reprimand

• withholding a pay improve

• wage suspension, and/or

• demotion or dismissal.

However self-discipline was postponed, in response to provincial spokesman Invoice Mullan, after the federal government determined to rent an out of doors regulation agency to conduct an impartial, in-depth investigation.

The county printed a abstract of Miller Canfield’s findings, which mentioned county staff knew or ought to have identified of the battle of curiosity and that the contract settlement with ZaydLogix violated state regulation.

The Oakland Press has requested the total Miller Canfield report, but it surely has not but been launched.

The province’s new preventive measures embody:

•Transferring all evaluations of bids for provincial work from IT to the province’s procurement division.

• Require all County staff to evaluation and signal the County Requirements of Conduct Throughout Open Season for Well being Insurance coverage Decisions.

• Requiring further coaching on the province’s buying insurance policies and procedures for all IT division staff, supervisors and managers.

County Government Dave Coulter mentioned the county is “dedicated to serving the general public with the utmost ethics and transparency.

“That didn’t occur within the ZaydLogix case,” he mentioned. “The actions of some staff fell in need of that customary, and they’re going to now face the total penalties of their actions.”

Coulter mentioned he was grateful the Miller Canfield investigation discovered no proof of intent to defraud the province or for improper monetary acquire.

Nonetheless, the failure to comply with the province’s insurance policies and requirements is “unacceptable and have to be appropriately disciplined,” he mentioned, including that he helps the request for a police investigation.

County Commissioner Mike Spisz requested the sheriff’s workplace Wednesday to analyze the contract.

“The Oakland County Sheriff’s Workplace has accomplished a report and we at the moment are figuring out our subsequent investigative steps,” mentioned sheriff’s spokesman Steve Huber. “We’ve got nothing additional so as to add presently.”

On Wednesday, Spisz informed The Oakland Press that no commissioner had seen all the Miller Canfield report, so far as he knew.

“State regulation was violated in response to (county attorneys’) abstract. What regulation or legal guidelines? We have to perceive what really occurred and what precise disciplinary actions are deliberate along with any felony actions,” he mentioned.

“I stay dedicated to accountability on this and all instances involving a violation of the general public belief and the ideas we adhere to,” Coulter mentioned.

In July, the province informed media that ZaydLogix subcontractors had been transferred to different staffing businesses engaged on CLEMIS.

At the least one, Charles Craft, mentioned he had rejected the switch supply whereas questions remained over contracts. Craft, a former Troy police chief and former chairman of the county’s CLEMIS board, had labored for ZaydLogix for lower than two weeks. He was by no means paid: his entry to the province’s system was canceled together with the ZaydLogix contract.

So Craft was offended when The Oakland Press reported his fee at $150 when he thought it was $125.

“There was nothing in writing, which was really my fault,” he mentioned. “I ought to have put one thing in writing.”

Mullan mentioned Craft had not but submitted an bill for his companies to the province.

“I made a decision to not undergo with it as a result of it was by no means in regards to the cash,” says Craft, a longtime supporter of CLEMIS.

He was requested to hitch ZaydLogix due to his information of CLEMIS and his connections with regulation enforcement businesses. His work would include explaining how the system works to businesses contemplating becoming a member of the web platform. He mentioned he had two conversations with Mohammad about submitting invoices, however wage charges had been by no means mentioned.

The county has a two-step course of for contractor invoices, he mentioned. ZaydLogix would submit one bill and Craft would submit it on to a provincial cost system. He mentioned any discrepancies would have been corrected at the moment.

One Friday, a district official known as Craft and requested him to submit an bill.

“If he does, we are going to start our course of to pay him,” Mullan mentioned.