Todd Paris, Attorney and Candidate for Salisbury City Council
♦ While many readers are familiar with Myra Heard’s methods of circumventing legally required public information requests, few of you, unless you work or have worked in Salisbury’s notorious city hall have known about Myra’s “dirty little secret”. Shall we let the ole cat out of the bag?
When Salisbury City Clerk Myra Heard wanted new furniture for her office she spared no expense:
New guest chairs $4,759.30
A new desk $1,599
A new lateral file $959.90
A new bookcase $699.95
A new chair mat $459.60
For a total of $8,477.75.
This is how City Clerk Myra Heard spends your tax dollars, most lavishly on a $459.60 plastic mat to go under her office chair.
But that’s not all, the city’s purchasing policies were violated to make it happen. Purchases that exceed $5,000 are required to be bid out, but that didn’t happen in this case. It went to a single vendor without being bid.
But that’s not all. Everything was ordered from her husband’s business with Indoff. Indoff pays their sales staff a 75% commission on gross profit from each sale: http://join.indoff.com/workfromhome/
Getting a commission check direct deposited into your joint bank account on a no-bid $8,477 purchase while you comfortably glide your office chair on a new $459 plastic mat. Now that’s running City Hall like a boss.
See the purchase orders and supporting documents below:
NC Bidding Statute:
https://app.box.com/s/zvimb3ttvlcmwt4ddgfp8x15fgetjtom
Salisbury, NC Purchasing Policy and Procedures :
https://app.box.com/s/5d3a5j39op08d3bzh85oph5we7x61qvl
1st Indoff Purchase Order (desk, bookcase, file cabinet):
https://app.box.com/s/qzx0oglvcxxhqbg1hhbtoqb7bfmiekg0
1st Indoff Packing Slip:
https://app.box.com/s/z8ukds367a9jwppuq3el569mqgf33j4t
2nd Indoff Purchase Order (fourteen guest chairs):
https://app.box.com/s/krw6ojbpu41z4tigw8dxy27t36bsd4pd
1st Indoff Invoice :
https://app.box.com/s/focrxkxow75bozj2fktho1qbj85avvs5
3rd Indoff Purchase Order (floor mat) :
https://app.box.com/s/gp2cd334zzoow8lwg64ztijub470wyrh
2nd Indoff Invoice:
https://app.box.com/s/j32b02p53bcjwfsnypixnxe2nc5ser50
Cover of Salisbury, NC Purchasing Manual:
https://app.box.com/s/bss7xynhzkvsfzmuiojn8jm4ap9tyzai
Myra and Jeff Heard in prosperous times:
