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| Welcome to the Mad Hatter's Underwater Tea Party ..... I mean the Community School Pool Task Force Meeting ... |
On Tuesday night, FinCom raised serious concerns about the Community School's accounting practices. Not only was it acknowledged that school funds are being diverted to pool use -- but that apparent diversion probably has reduced the chance of FinCom supporting a school budget increase.
The School Department has acknowledged that business has gotten worse. I assume this means the pool will lose more than the $128,000 the auditors stated it lost in 2009 -- if the costs of operating the pool are actually acknowledged -- and not buried in the School District's Budget.
All that being said, the SC heard a report from the Pool Taskforce. Not a business plan for developing new revenue streams, or reducing costs -- but a discussion of how they are going to renovate locker room space. They plan to seek donations and "do fundraising" to pay for the work. Given the success of fundraising efforts since the idea was first mentioned 3 years ago, I won't be holding my breath.
2 comments:
It sounds like FinCom is beginning to realize what so many others have pretended not to --- the school is charging K-12 parents to cover-up the mis-allocation of tax dollars to fund the Community School's over-spending.
Why hasn't the Attorney General gotten involved?
Thanks for hitting the nail on the head. Here is another example of SC irrational thinking where CS is concerned. If students are going to be charged to park in the HS lot during the day, CS users should be charged as well. The CS should be for adult education only, at night, like the one at the Upper Cape Tech, which nets more for their school budget and has 1 and 1/2 employees running it. Now we are paying unemployment for the two co-directors. When will this bleeding of the Sandwich taxpayers stop.
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