How Do You Lose $30,000.00?????

One of the issues that raised the ire of some school board members at tonights meeting was $30,000.00 missing from the textbook line item. As Board member were looking at the purchase of new textbooks it was noted by Mr Story that an amended budget had been done just a month ago to put $252,000.00 in the budget for text books tonight there was only $220,000.00 left in that line item. Where did it go? Mr Jackson said he thought they had bought some textbooks already but when Mr Parton was asked about the textbooks he sated he had not purchased any from this budget. Where did the money go? Mrs Garner said she thought books had been purchased but wasn't sure. She committed to check and report before the next school board meeting. The Board to their credit refused to vote on the issue until they knew where the $30,000.00 was.

A bigger question arises as to why, in this modern age of computers and advanced technology, Mrs Garner doesn't have a laptop computer with the budget in it so she can quickly pull up any answer that involves the county/school budgets instead of having to return to her office and get the information days later? Allen Barrett