Very nice. First there was going to be a shortfall for next year’s budget so they needed a tax increase. Then it turns out that instead of a $1M surplus this year, there is really a $7M shortfall so they need a bigger tax increase. Then the School Board decides to max out the tax increase to pay for the “lost” money (still taking 2 years to pay the debt off). Then the superintendent ($250,000 per year) blames a former employee who left almost a year ago (and who denies any knowlege of a budget problem) for the budget crisis and then he “lawyers up” and won’t talk to anybody claiming the School Board was being mean to him and has committed criminal acts. Then the new CFO announces that another $1.8M is missing. See the memo here–>School Nutrition Missing Money How much can get stolen before someone besided me and The Times does something about it? Sheriff Cronic: Please call the GBI to start an investigation before the “auditors” clean up the evidence. You don’t need a search warrant, just ask for consent to search and see who objects.
This is what happens when you let Democrats handle money. There is never enough to do what they want, and sometimes some money goes missing. The answer is always to raise taxes so you can pay for their mistakes.
Read The Times here–>$1.8 million in federal funds unaccounted for by Gainesville schools
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