SNOW HILL – Education officials responded to county questions about the school system’s budget with a variety of financial information.
The Worcester County Board of Education last Thursday responded to the request the Worcester County Commissioners sent earlier this month seeking answers to budget questions. Todd Ferrante, president of the school board, said education officials appreciated the chance to share insight.
“As the primary funding agent for the Board of Education, we want to ensure you have a greater understanding of the school budget process,” Ferrante wrote in his response. “Our Finance Office, under the responsible leadership of Chief Financial Officer Vince Tolbert and Superintendent of Schools Lou Taylor, continues its work to reformat our budget to better reflect the level of detail desired by the Board
and previously requested by the Commissioners.”
At the request of county officials, the school system provided Worcester County with thousands of pages of detailed budget information in June. The school system responded to questions about that information with a letter late last week. Though the commissioners questioned the school system’s “irregular budgeting style,” the school system said it was in line with education budgeting practices.
First of all the BOE and the county commissioners are NOT on good terms. The county called the BOE out on its very shady budget process. The BOE got offended that they were called out and didn’t submit the requested (complete) documentation, and in so doing got slapped down with the minimum maintenance of effort. Now the BOE is stuck and all of their crap is coming to light. Serves them all right and I’m very happy the commissioners called them out. I’m happy to support public education, but I’m not happy to support my tax dollars being wasted.