The same official who made the case at the May 27 Joplin R-8 Board of Education for seeking long-term financing because of $8 million in "might as well spending" warned today that a petition audit could cost the district the services of two master teachers.
The statement, made by Chief Financial Officer Paul Barr in an interview with KOAM's Lisa Olliges, which accompanies this post, appears to be the second action taken by the C. J. Huff Administration to stop the audit in its tracks.
The first was Huff's attempt to fire a pre-emptive public relations strike Wednesday by calling the state auditor's office and asking the auditor to come down for what would have been a milder audit. Since the petition, which was started by TAMKO CEO David Humphreys, was already underway, the state auditor's office rejected the proposal.
In the video, Barr indicates the audit is not necessary and would be costly for the district.
KOAM TV 7
13 comments:
Or it could cost him his precious Health Center. It was $120,000 he was willing to spend to have a "clinic" at the high school. If the health agencies are so much in favor of the clinic have them do it themselves and put it across the street. What would it take to walk across the street? Surely not $120,000. Wouldn't that save us money. Isn't CJ interested in saving us money now.
That is a new low. That response just makes it seem like they need an audit even more.
How do you not know that a series of frantic responses just make it seem like you're really really defensive and trying to avoid something?
I wonder why district morale is low when the first place admin would start cutting to offset cost would be teachers. I would hope this is just a scare tactic to get people not to sign the petition.
This from the district with three gymnasiums, turf-covered practice fields, 8 tennis courts, dozens of extra people in administration, dozens of employees who do not teach or serve students directly. And their guilt trip for the audit is two teachers? What a freaking joke. We aren't buying it from an administration that has turned its hand to the teachers for six solid years. That money would never have been spent on teachers. It would have hired a third-or fourth- community outreach person to try and drum up donations. Gee, it's about the same amount of money wasted on the "thank you" tour. Huff has no shame, and now we know that Paul Barr is one of the group that must go.
Everyone get out there and sign that petition. This just cannot stand. The faster the petition is signed, the faster the truth will be out and these people will be gone. Do your duty to the children and taxpayers of this district and SIGN THE PETITION! You won't hurt anyone by doing so. You'll just be uncovering the truth.
Two "master teachers" or one worthless director from the AD Bldg or a couple of brown nosing TLCs. Funny that wasn't their first suggestion. Nope. Used teachers. Leverage against parents. Jackasses. Anyone can see through that. Huff and Co have done nothing to keep their master teachers on board.
Sign the petition, people. It's time to clear things up.
Gosh, it's not a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of a video scoreboard.
I would not have said this before, but I will say it now.
Someone must have something to hide.
The cost of the petition is negligible compared to the cost of letting Huff continue. Let's review last year:
Sent a herd of administrators and TLCs to DC to the Model Schools Conference with a theme of Doing More with Less. Cost? over thirty grand.
Spent 15 grand to pay people to update school Facebook accounts.
Spent 15 grand to put wifi on four buses.
Sent teachers and administrators and PLCs to Texas and Arizona to conferences that got them nothing. 1000s spent.
Last spring? Pulled over 90 school personnel out of classes to attend a useless workshop. Sent so many the district ran out of subs at 75 bucks a day.
Cry me a bucket CJ about the cost of the audit. It should be taken right out of your bloated check.
TRADE YOU ONE CFO FOR TWO TEACHERS. :>
Maybe CJ can give some more speeches to cover the cost. We won't even tell the Ethics Commission about them.
How many Jumbotrons will this audit cost the students of Joplin?
If the businessmen would drink my blood,
like the kids in art school said they would,
then I guess I'll just begin again,
you say can we still be friends?
If I was scared, I would.
If I were bored, you know I would,
If I were yours.....but I'm not.
The business man donated enough to cover the audit. Seems like good business to me
Post a Comment