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The schools can't get their act together at all. Rather than focusing on homosexual indoctrination in kindergarten, they should be concerned about not illegally spending beyond budgeted funds. If the $70M school system were a public company, you can bet the management (superintendent, finance director) and board (school committee) would be under investigation for financial irregularities!

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Clearing up Lexington school spending issues By Bethan L. Jones/ Staff Writer Thursday, November 3, 2005

With so many issues, there is much room for confusion.
Recently, questions regarding school spending have surfaced, leading to questions about past actions and future plans. For the record, the outstanding bills from fiscal 2005 have not been paid.
The school department is still sitting on approximately $528,000 of fiscal 2005 bills which are still not paid.
When the school department went to close out fiscal 2005, they discovered the deficit, some of which stemmed from the spending of $240,000 of fiscal 2005 money on fiscal 2004 bills.
At the end of fiscal 2004, then-Director of School Finance Susan Bottan was faced with $240,000 in bills with no money to pay them. Rather than going to a special Town Meeting for an appropriation, Bottan used fiscal 2005 appropriated funds to pay off the fiscal 2004 bills. This action left the fiscal 2005 budget without needed funds on July 1.
The school department is also going to Town Meeting to request more than $800,000 to close the anticipated gap in fiscal 2006 funding.