The California State Auditor (BSA), although contacted in the Fall of 1997, was not allowed to do any audit related to any roofing projects at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) for 6 - count them - 6 years. They were contacted again in the Spring of 2000, after over 200 brave and angry men and women in the Roofing Industry from 24 states called me - out of the blue - and with great information. I had been fired for whistleblowing to the FBI about illegally sole-sourced roofing contracts, among others, in February, 1999 at UCSF, and heard later that it had gotten out "like wildfire" around the country in the roofing industry that such had happened.
The BSA was stopped, again, from doing their final report - until the Fall of 2003, when the report was published. They were allowed to look at only one of the many such specifications at UCSF for over 20 years that Tremco was listed solely in roofing and reroofing specifications. UCSF, for those who do not know, owns multiple hospitals and well over the 110 buildings that they owned while I worked there. The BSA is controlled by politicians, a Joint Legislative Audit Commitee (JLAC), who controls what the BSA can look at - and did - in this case.
The Bureau of State Audits (BSA) was allowed to do the report pictured above, in my case.
That same report is located at:
and read Chapter 5.
If you have information regarding Tremco, Garland, Hickman or a similar operation being sole-sourced in construction products in your schools or public facilities, please call the California State Auditor's Hotline at:
1 (800) 952-5665- or if in a different state, your own State Auditor's Offices -
and say you are reporting information regarding school or public works roofing projects.If you need help in your state, please feel free to post your request here OR email me confidentially at roofreports@gmail.com and I shall find out for you who would be the probable safest contact - although never assured.
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