Paid a consultant 250,000.00 with no work product shown

The County paid a Washington consulting firm 250,000.00 from the settlement account on purchase order 25-07623. The authorizing resolution and the purchase order describe the work in one sentence, implementation and set up activities to kick off a multi lingual outreach program, for a term of two months from 08/20/2025 to 10/20/2025. The whole 250,000.00 was drawn inside three months, on check 441960 dated 10/16/2025 for 72,200.00, check 442809 dated 11/26/2025 for two lines of 71,600.00 and 74,400.00, and check 443484 dated 12/18/2025 for 31,800.00. The County's vendor payment history for this firm holds those four lines and nothing else. It had never been paid by the County before. The invoice numbered 111225 and dated November 12 2025, three weeks after the term ended, bills 74,400.00 for in person field outreach and states that 744 of the 2,000 contracted outreach hours had been deployed, which it puts at 37.20 percent. The fee is invoiced on the share of the field outreach completed. The FY2026 report, published 10/01/2026, now lists the firm as a program, The Civic Operations Group, under Primary Prevention, Education, and Training, and certifies the 250,000.00 as spent, which equals the four payments to the cent (pages 15 to 19). It describes door to door outreach and gives the funded date as 11/26/2025, the date of check 442809. Apart from that report and the firm's own invoicing, the record holds no account of the work. No report, deliverable or other work product from the firm has been produced.