--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycheech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> thank you, for keeping us informed, the two serious problems, are
monsters, can you share more information on either, especially the
second one? or will we have to let it play out and read about it in
the papers? is the audit and its recommendations available to the
public or do we have to wait to you vote on your corrective action
plan? easy for me to speculate, i shouldnt but i will someone NO MANY
SOMEONES were asleep or burying their heads in the sand for these two
events to happen, i am not saying bd. members, i am saying
administrators, notice the s for plural no one person no two people
could pull this off, without help, bd. members are only as good as
their administrators, who are suppose to be keeping the bd. informed,
again many did not do this , no excuses go after them all even the
ones who knew were not part of it but did not bring it to your
attention. again thank you, good luck, on what i see as not a happy
or joyful several months trying to straighten this mess up.
> To keep you informed on the latest:
> Last night, Thursday, February 1, the Asbury Park Board of
> Education had a special meeting in which very important business
took
> place. First, the board voted to accept the annual internal audit
> conducted by Rick Gartz. By the way, that doesn't mean all board
> members liked it, but rather that it was formally received by the
> board. The audit found at least 23 very serious deficiencies,
among
> them two serious problems found by other State agencies. I will
> explain in a moment, but there is attached to the audit, as there
is
> required to be, a "corrective action plan", which was also approved
> by the board. The board was asked to "digest" the audit and its
> findings and continue discussion at the next meeting. The other
two
> reports formally accepted by the board last night are the two I
> referenced above. One states that the annual report filed with the
> State every year on or about October 15 (called the ASSA report—I'm
> not sure what the acronym means exactly) reporting the number of
> students has been inflated for several years. That, of course, is
a
> serious allegation, and there is lots of evidence to back it up.
> That alone will cost the district several millions of dollars in
> state aid that must be recouped. The other report the board
accepted
> contains extremely serious allegations that some person or persons
> has/have been "circumventing" the bidding laws by having one
company
> form subsidiary companies so that in no case is the bidding
threshold
> ($21,000) met or exceeded. If true, and there is plenty of
evidence
> to support the allegations, this is tantamount to the same offense
> for which people are now serving time. The State office of
> compliance is sending the matter on to the state Attorney General's
> office. Both of those reports also have a "corrective action plan"
> attached to them. As a member of the board of ed, I do not speak
for
> the board, but these reports are "distressing" as my fellow board
> member Greg Brewington said last night. They also present a great
> opportunity, in my opinion, to bring the matter of
> misfeasance/malfeasance to a head, and expose a decade of
corruption
> when the business of the school system was far removed from the
> business of education.
>
>
> Frank D'Alessandro
>
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