A College Park resident has obtained a wealth of public records that she says point to a conflict of interest involving the city, a public official and a vendor paid more than $1 million by College Park over two fiscal years. The vendor is RSW Services, which is owned by Subrenia Willis, chairwoman of College Park’s Business and Industrial Development Authority. Willis’s husband, Rex Willis, who leads the company, said there is no conflict of interest and that RSW Services has not benefited from his wife’s role with the authority, known as BIDA.
Resident Elizabeth Lester said she has had ongoing concerns about College Park’s hiring of RSW Services for city projects. Over the past two years, she has collected numerous documents through open-records requests to determine how much the city has paid the company. Lester wrote on the SpeakUp College Park Facebook page that invoices and other financial records show the city paid RSW Services a total of $1,034,047 during fiscal years 2025 and 2026.
“It’s always been odd to me that Subrenia and Rex have done work for the city,” Lester told SaportaReport. She is serving as chair of an organization that is in charge of so much that is impacting our city. And here she is making a lot of money off of our city.” City Manager Michael Hicks and City Attorney Winston Denmark did not respond to an email seeking comment on whether the city’s business relationship with RSW Services presents a conflict of interest or violates College Park’s ethics code.
College Park’s Standards of Conduct state, in part: “No city official, employee or appointee shall enter into any contract with the city except as specifically authorized by state statutes. Any city official, employee or appointee who has a proprietary interest in an agency doing business with the city shall make known that interest in writing to the city council and city clerk.” Rex Willis describes his wife’s BIDA position as a volunteer role, rather than that of a city official. He said the company’s contracts were awarded through a lawful process.
“She’s not a city official,” Willis said. “It may seem that way, but she is not a city official… We are citizens. We’ve got a legally binding contract.
We went through the legal process.” Willis said RSW Services has not received work through BIDA and that none of the company’s bids or contracts came be…
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