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Extracted from Consolidated Report

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Tulare County Grand Jury • 2015-2016

articleFarmersville School Issues*

Published: June 24, 2016 10 pages

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Findings 8 findings

The number of credit cards has been significantly reduced.

Credit cards have been used without an approved purchase order.

Staff and board conferences were frequent and expensive. Their preferred method of travel included numerous commercial airline flights.

Contrary to established policy, food was purchased for local meetings.

Two Superintendents are being paid at the same time.

A resigned board member had not been replaced at time of this report.

An off-site staff development meeting cost in excess of $4,000.

The Bond/Citizen's Oversight Committee meets approximately every other month.

Recommendations 8

R1

That the District follow the Tulare County Office of Education purchase order process.
R2

District Policies regarding travel expenses should be followed.
R3

Teleconferences and/or webinars should be utilized whenever available. REQUIRED RESPONSES: 1. Farmersville Unified School District 2. Tulare County Office of Education £
R4

Fact: District policy for food purchased must be outside of the 50 mile radius of the District.
R5

Fact: The current superintendent has been placed on paid administrative leave, pending investigation. A previous superintendent has been hired as acting superintendent.
R6

Fact: A longstanding board member resigned during his term.
R7

Fact: A staff development meeting was held off site.
R8

Fact: The Bond/Citizen's Oversight Committee meets to oversee the expenditures of the $4.8 million dollar General Obligation Bond.

* This report's PDF did not contain easily extractable text and required Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for analysis. There may be minor errors in the extracted findings and recommendations due to OCR limitations with scanned documents.