Ahead of a Portland School Board vote tonight on whether to award Texas-based construction firm Procedeo $61.5 million to perform bond program management services for the district over the next five years, a School Board member is drumming up public demand to delay the vote.

School Board member Virginia La Forte took to Facebook on Saturday to post a number of concerns she said she’d heard regarding the contract, which PPS awarded through a request for proposals process in mid-November . (The contract requires board approval.) In her post, La Forte wrote the board was receiving little time to review the materials—just one business day—and that there were concerns about scoring irregularities, Procedeo’s pricing model, and the firm’s out of state status, among other points.

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