Rory Linnane:
“They painted a picture that on the outside looked like there was improvement being made,” Zombor said. “You believe them, because they’re the experts.” Now, Zombor said, she’s frustrated that the picture they painted seems to be “very different from what was happening in reality.”
In January, Chason said he was temporarily blocked from accessing the district’s financial information. That happened shortly after the publication of a recorded conversation between Chason and former school board member Aisha Carr, in which Chason explained how he felt administrators had made questionable budget maneuvers. Chason said he hadn’t consented to being recorded.
In March, after Chason regained access to information, he sent school board members a memo about ongoing problems in the finance office: staff had failed to submit information that Baker Tilly needed for the latest audit, and the district had therefore missed deadlines with DPI.
In response, Posley told board members March 22 that MPS had updated DPI about the audit and was solving problems. He didn’t mention that at that point, DPI was having weekly meetings with MPS staff about the late reports.
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