Just when one thinks that Governor Blanco’s Road Home Program can’t get any more screwed up and wasteful we see a story in Wednesday’s Daily Monopoly about using out-of-state companies hiring in-state appraisers to assist with the program.

Here’s how I understand how the appraisers will be hired.

ICF, a Virginia company, hired a California company to contract with a Florida company to approach LA appraisers about doing the appraisal work. The CA company will be paid $275 per appraisal done by LA appraisers for which the LA appraisers will be paid a fee of $150.

It seems that ICF could have simply contacted the LA Board of Appraisers and saved the $275 per appraisal which could mean the $27.5 Million to the CA company could be used to give more or larger grants to homeowners.

I would have been happy to give ICF the contact info for the LA Board of Appraisers in Baton Rouge. Go here. It’s a state agency. Ask for a list; no charge.

What’s wrong with this picture?

C.B.