The district agreed to cover project costs and pay an additional percentage of those costs to Hughes General Contractors, according to a Wednesday report by the Office of the Utah State Auditor. That type of payment model is prohibited by the state’s procurement code.
Hughes General Contractors, headquartered in North Salt Lake, subsequently violated state law, the audit states, by awarding a sub-contract to upgrade the school district’s LED lighting systems without following the procurement code’s requirements for competitive third-party bids.
The audit includes a prepared response from Andre Caplan, president of the Park City School District Board of Education, who wrote that the district is “generally in agreement” with the audit’s recommendations.