It's looking like the school system will no longer have to account for how it spends county money by "purpose and function."
As noted in today's article by Michael Biesecker, all four Democratic commissioners say they're willing to repeal the new requirement that the school board can't deviate from its approved budget in several board areas by more than 15 percent without getting their approval.
"We're trying to micromanage another elected body," said Lindy Brown, vice chairwoman of the board of commissioners, in today's article.
The three Democratic commissioners on the board in June had agreed to the new restriction as part of a budget compromise with GOP Commissioner Joe Bryan. Previously, the commissioners had given a lump sum and left it up to the school board to spend the money.
The difference now is that Democrats are in the majority on the board of commissioners.
After the restriction was adopted in June, school board members bitterly complained about this "purpose and function" requirement.
Last week, the school board agreed to return $5.7 million to help with the county budget shortfall. But they also agreed to ask commissioners to drop the new budget restriction.
"Monitoring budget adjustments at purpose and function levels requires additional administrative staff time both at the central and school levels," wrote Rosa Gill, chairwoman of the school board, in a letter to the commissioners.
David Neter, chief business officer, elaborated on Gill's letter yesterday.
Neter said principals and the central budget office have to spend time monitoring to the smallest detail where money is being spent to make sure they're not causing the district budget to deviate by 15 percent in those broad categories.
While the work isn't hard, Neter said it's taking time away from other things principals and budget staffers could be doing.
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Fri, 12/12/2008 - 09:33 — Eric_BIt seems like a good thing to me that principals and Central Office will have to track how money is being spent. What are they doing today? Are they really asking to not have to track how they spend money?
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Fri, 12/12/2008 - 10:41 — KeungHui (author)School officials say it's not that they have to track how money is spent, which they say was done before the new requirement. They say the problem is the level of detail now required on an ongoing basis by commissioners is overkill.
I disagreed with how the
Fri, 12/12/2008 - 10:56 — Eric_BI disagreed with how the amounts were set by the commissioners without much feedback from the school board, but it seems like it really is not that much work to track the amount spent by category. They shouldn't just be given a blank check to spend money any way they want regardless of what they presented to the county commisioners.
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Fri, 12/12/2008 - 09:12 — g88ky07Let's just go ahead and make it easier for the board to continue screwing the public by not requiring them to do anything except what THEY and YOU want.
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