If you’re like me, then you’re probably closely following the library maintenance contract scandal, which concerns a contract between the Sac Library and Hagginwood Services Inc to provide buildings maintenance. The library is now investigating $1.3 million in fees paid to Hagginwood after the Bee filed a request to examine the money trail. At the heart of the investigation is several instances of possible overcharging, including “$410 to unplug a toilet, $411 to fix a leaking water fountain and $2,423 for repairing lights in one room” (personally, $410 to unplug a commercial toilet doesn’t sound like a stretch).
Well, if you’re still with me you should read on, because this thing goes much further down the proverbial rabbit hole…
Hagginwood is owned by Janie Rankins-Mayle, who is married to the library’s security supervisor, James Mayle. The company also is headquartered at a Del Paso Boulevard home owned by the couple, documents show.
Scandal!
…documents obtained separately by The Bee show Hagginwood used a subcontractor for some jobs and tripled the charges to the library.
For example, Rodocker Construction of Orangevale submitted an $80 bill to Hagginwood for painting curbs at the Martin Luther King Jr. library branch April 21. Hagginwood billed the library $240 for work there with the same invoice number.
A May 18 bill for $160 from Rodocker for removing shelving at the Arcade branch was billed to the library by Hagginwood for $420.
Seems like contractors make their money by adding charges to their subcontractor’s bills, but how do I know. Here’s another twist:
Serena Guest, bookkeeper for Rodocker, which is owned by her husband, Harry Rodocker, said she had no idea how steeply Hagginwood was marking up her husband’s work.
I’m starting to think this thing runs all the way up to Reggie Theus himself. Oh did I mention that the library’s deputy director’s name is Rick Teichert? (Just kidding.)
There’s a “right awn” in all of this, too…
Gold, the library director, said a library staffer had approached officials with copies of Rodocker’s invoices, leading to the internal investigation.
Right on, anonymous staffer. You got much further than Diane Boerman, a library finance clerk who raised similar concerns with library management in 2005 but was “brushed aside.”
And if you weren’t thinking there was enough scandal here:
Within months after Boerman aired her concerns to library officials, James Mayle — who co-owns the house listed on Hagginwood Services’ corporate license — filed a workers’ compensation claim saying he had fallen off his chair in the library. He filed a claim in December 2005 for pain in his lower back and right buttock, according to state documents.
She said buttock! CoolDMZ out…
The Sac Rag 
He’s too incompetent to SIT IN A FREEKING CHAIR?
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Nice gig if you can live with your self.
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maybe he got to the really good part in crime and punishment.
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