DPS cracking down on employee CC use

[Dave_L]

Can someone please tell me why schools need more money again? Some snippets:



Auditors sampled 197 employee credit card transactions and found something wrong with 154 of them -- a 78 percent fail rate.
Employees were routinely providing “no or inadequate documentation” and buying items off the “prohibited transactions” list.


That also made it easy to question certain purchases that were culled from a computer database that was built that contained all the credit card purchases in the past couple of years.


Party City: $23,511
Flowers: $7,806
Jewelry: $3,900
Gift cards: $110,638

Putting nonstudent-related food on credit is supposedly under tight control, but when we searched for receipts linked to "BBQ" or "Famous Dave's," there were $73,917 in credit card purchases by school employees.
Einstein Brother’s Bagels came out to $174,222. Pizza restaurants were at $451,658.

http://kdvr.com/2016/03/02/dps-cracks-down-on-employee-credit-card-use/

[roberth]

Because they are irresponsible with the money they're already getting from us?

[Great-Kazoo]

Because they are irresponsible with the money they're already getting from us?

Or re-purposing said money back to the dispensary..

[Irving]

While it's not unheard of to purchase food for students that isn't pizza, it is a bit ironic that these teachers receive a failing grade due to lack of citation.

[Skip]

And I remember KUSA/9 News running non-stop stories about Sam's Club card abuse in DougCo. After a few cycles they released the meat of the story... No one had actually purchased personal items billed to the district but had used the district purchased membership benefit to purchase personal items.

So there were a few cases that a $45 membership was abused. Scandal! Huge embarrassment to the Conservative school board.

And those gift cards are nothing more than theft.

[spqrzilla]

Our school systems have far more money than they need. The worse performing schools in our country spend the most per pupil.

[crays]

But...It's for the chirrens.

sent from somwhere

[Sawin]

$110K for gift cards... are you kidding me? I'd call that felony embezzlement in a heartbeat.

[Blowby]

$110K for gift cards... are you kidding me? I'd call that felony embezzlement in a heartbeat.
The prosecuting parties are on the same team so they will re-classify this as a slight misunderstanding of guidelines. Items purchased were to support needs of the staff to provide a positive attitude towards the students..... [blah-blah] [blah-blah]

[Dave_L]

The prosecuting parties are on the same team so they will re-classify this as a slight misunderstanding of guidelines. Items purchased were to support needs of the staff to provide a positive attitude towards the students..... [blah-blah] [blah-blah]

You mean they might say something like this?


"It’s also really easy to take an almost billion-dollar budget and say there’s a million dollars in prohibited transactions and when you dig into them there are a lot of those that are justified and allowed with an exception," Ferrandino said.

[Mazin]

So wtf are teacher doing with district CC's anyway? I say the Principal should only have one and he would have to approve purchases. Easier to keep on person to the regs than 500

[Dave_L]

So wtf are teacher doing with district CC's anyway? I say the Principal should only have one and he would have to approve purchases. Easier to keep on person to the regs than 500

I'm also curious on that. Could you imagine if a company gave out corporate cards to ALL employees? Maybe the department heads have them and gave them to the teachers to use as needed so they dont have to be bothered? :shrugs:

[muddywings]

Dear god that is crazy. I have 3 different government credit cards I maintain. Two for my unit one for another unit that we support. EVERY SINGLE PURCHASE NEEDS A RECEIPT and has to be accounted for.

[TFOGGER]

In a lot of institutional settings (colleges, etc.), gift cards are used for disbursing funds for things like survey and research participation, en lieu of cash disbursements. I can't for the life of me figure out why they would need this in a k-12 setting, however. My wife did accounting for this kind of thing at the University of Colorado, and I can tell you they kept a very tight lid on the inventory of gift cards, treating them EXACTLY like cash, and reconciling them by serial number every month.

[COShooter]

Our school systems have far more money than they need. The worse performing schools in our country spend the most per pupil.
Colorado schools are a special brand of stupid. Our teachers are some of the lowest paid in the nation. Our school Superintendents/Managers/Do-Nothings? They are the highest paid in the nation!

[cstone]

Colorado schools are a special brand of stupid. Our teachers are some of the lowest paid in the nation. Our school Superintendents/Managers/Do-Nothings? They are the highest paid in the nation!

I may pay for them, but they certainly are not MY schools. The teacher's unions still control most of the school boards and are responsible for their poor performance.

If pay determined performance than we are really underpaying the US military and overpaying our elected representatives.

[68Charger]

This is what happens when you put liberals in charge of money- especially other people's money... This is my shocked face [fail]

[ChunkyMonkey]

Sigh.. Not surprised either.


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