Fayette County Schools Budget Meeting (YOUR Tax $$$)

[LowerLevelSeatA]

Interesting exchange from last night's budget meeting. Watch from 43:40 of this video for about 10 minutes.

High-level summary:
* One board member shares a concern from a parent who chaired the budget committee that they were never able to obtain a copy of the full budget from last year.
* The superintendent says that the full budget is public and also that it is inefficient to provide the full budget to someone (?)
* Another board member repeats this contradictory statement and then states that transparency is being weaponized (!)
* The board chair then goes on to state how the board is to oversee the budget, but not oversee the budget at each school, and that as an educator it would be chilling to have his spending analyzed (!)

This tells you about everything you need to know. Transparency is not a core value of this board and, in fact, you are a bad and disingenuous person if you ask for it.

 

[Phil_The_Music]

I work for FCPS in IT. I can tell you that the leadership from top to bottom is terrible. They spend money like drunken sailors when they have it, then turn into coach Kline from waterboy when they don't. Liggins will bankrupt us.

 

[LowerLevelSeatA]

And his rubber stamp board (3 of them) just approved his hefty new contract).

Shouldn’t be surprising though, the superintendent had some red flags from previous employer:

Forensic Audit: “Cronyism, Theft” by Public School Officials

A forensic audit of Greenville ISD, which was deemed unnecessary by the current superintendent, found former district officials engaged in criminal activity.

texasscorecard.com

TX district formerly led by husband of FCPS chief is placed into conservatorship over misconduct allegations - The Lexington Times

UPDATE: While a 2022 forensic audit report does refer to Liggins as Granger’s spouse, the current status of their relationship is unclear and they do not appear to reside in the same state. Granger is currently listed as a real estate agent for a brokerage in Texas. He also maintains an active...

lexingtonky.news

And questions here of Fayette county spending:

WKYT Investigates | More questions over Fayette Co. Public Schools spending

Our WKYT Investigates team combed through dozens of professional leave requests for 2024 to figure out, who's approving each trip?

www.wkyt.com

His husband or ex husband was in hot water too with $$:

Lancaster ISD investigation into former superintendent, trustees shared with FBI

Auditors find ex-schools leader tried to influence elections and offered trustees consulting gigs.

www.dallasnews.com

 

[JumperJack]

Wasn’t it a few days ago that they wrote a letter telling Andy Barr that they absolutely count make it if their federal funding were cut? Or am I imaging that?