LAUSD board members voted unanimously to give Superintendent Alberto Carvalho emergency powers to respond to the Labor Day weekend ransomware attack.
That said, Carvalho also promised to be transparent about costs. Carvalho committed to sharing monthly spending reports through December, and after that, every two months. The superintendent also left open the possibility that he’d ask the board to rescind his special powers in March 2023.
“I’m not one who necessarily believes it’s great public policy to maximize delegated authority beyond its necessity,” Carvalho said in an interview after the meeting.district-wide upgrades to the information technology infrastructure — but under the emergency authority, Carvalho said his designees would only spend money on cybersecurity.
“We will use that [authority] for crisis and emergency [response],” he said. “For longer-term picture fixes that our system may require beyond the crisis, I believe we will resume the transparent procurement process.”It was only 18 months ago that LAUSD’s board voted to end the last authorization of emergency powers.
"We were at a point with [Apple], where they said, 'We have this much inventory left in all of the U.S. and it's at our stores. Do you want it or not?” Beutner recalled in an interviewThe emergency declaration — formally approved just hours later — gave LAUSD the flexibility to finalize the purchase that, Beutner contended, the district’s normal procurement rules don’t allow.
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