California Court of Appeal

In a taxpayer's challenge to a noncompetitive bid contract between a school district and construction company for the construction of a middle school, in which construction was completed pursuant to a lease-leaseback arrangement that the district and construction company contend is exempt from competitive bidding under Education Code section 17406, the trial court's judgment in favor of the district is reversed where: 1) the competitive bidding process required by section 17417 is subject to the exception contained in section 17406; 2) plaintiff adequately alleged three grounds for why section 17406's exception did not apply to the lease-leaseback arrangement; and 3) Government Code section 1090's prohibition of conflicts of interest extends to corporate consultants.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/01/2015
• Published 06/01/2015

Judges

• FRANSON

Court

• California Court of Appeal

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