If the administration at 75 Calhoun and the Charleston County School Board wish votes for a sales tax increase, then . . .
Audit. Show us some transparency about where the money has gone. [See Kandrac Calls for School District Audit.] And don't get the usual suspects involved in doing it.
According to the P&C, "Board member Chris Fraser said the discussion about transparency is a good one, but he said he didn't want to burden district staff with more work, and he wasn't sure how the audit would fit in with existing audits."
Translation: A new forensic audit might uncover hanky panky with the old ones.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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"...he [Chris Fraser] said he didn't want to burden district staff with more work..."
Excuse me, but didn't these same people get hefty raises last spring? That was right about the same time administrators were cutting teaching positions, requiring unpaid furloughs, freezing wages for line workers and increasing work loads in the classrooms.
Don't tell me an outside audit might place too much of a burden on those who may have the most to lose, I mean hide.
How can the public support a tax increase in November if board's finance committee chairman and the superintendent's chief financial officer can't understand the need for an audit?
Michael Bobby is almost funny when he suggests we just do another audit of the phone system, since the last one was five years ago. How about we don't do the phone system and do everything else instead? According to CCSD, the phone system and the human resources department are the only divisions that have ever been audited for fraud or management deficiencies.
The only organizations who fear audits are those who have something to hide.
Good for Kandrac. The audit is an excellent idea. I also liked Kandrac's idea of employing live stream technology or whatever it's called, so people can watch the school board meetings in real time on their home or work computers.
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