State scraps Solix contract, suspends charity campaign
The state of Florida is suspending its annual state worker charitable campaign after its most dismal year on record, leaving its future in serious doubt.
This year’s Florida State Employees’ Charitable Campaign raised only $282,092, its lowest amount in its 36-year history. And once again, the New Jersey vendor serving as the campaign’s fiscal agent, Solix, Inc., was poised to get most of the money, some 63 percent.
But the state’s decision to put the FSECC on ice means neither Solix nor the charities across Florida served by campaign will see any money from the fall drive, which ended Nov. 10.
On Monday, Chad Poppell, secretary of the Department of Management Services, notified state agencies he was suspending next year’s campaign and ending the state’s contract with Solix by mutual agreement. He also said all pledges from state employees during the most recent drive would go unprocessed.
Read more: http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2016/12/08/state-suspends-beleagured-fsecc/95139288/
