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    Default DPS cracking down on employee CC use

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by roberth View Post
    Because they are irresponsible with the money they're already getting from us?
    Or re-purposing said money back to the dispensary..
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    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.
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    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.

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    Our school systems have far more money than they need. The worse performing schools in our country spend the most per pupil.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spqrzilla View Post
    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!

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    Quote Originally Posted by COShooter View Post
    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.
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    But...It's for the chirrens.

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