Greene County revenue shortfall may hinge on administrator's budget miscalculations [The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va.]
Apr. 29—Greene County supervisors approved a
Taylor, now superintendent of
But according to the
Garton presented that information on a slide titled "problems with revenues for fiscal year 2023 — 24." She proposed a
In an
"I cannot comment on whether or not
According to the approved minutes of the
"
Members of the
Taylor framed the cuts as potentially necessary due to a projected
But the state budget situation is still in flux, and other area school divisions continue to anticipate an increase in state revenue for next fiscal year.
At the
"Our health insurance provider, Local Choice, is looking for a decision from this board this week," Taylor told supervisors, according to the video of the meeting. "They are adamant that they need an answer by this Friday."
He also told supervisors that each time he asked Local Choice why there was a cost increase, "They came back increasing our increase with each question we had."
After Taylor made these remarks, several
At later meetings, they told the board that they could find no evidence that Local Choice requested information about the cost-share breakdown or that the company continued to up the amount of the increase, as Taylor claimed.
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At the
"Why make that exaggerated claim when clearly the rate never increased over and over again?" Roberts asked. She said supervisors should be concerned that Taylor asked them to hold an unscheduled vote under misleading circumstances.
At the September meeting,
In an
"Honestly, what I think he is, is lazy," Bourne said. "I don't think he's purposely dishonest, but he strikes me as a lazy individual. When it catches up to him, we've seen it over and over, one of his staff goes under the bus. But the buck sort of stops with him, in my opinion."
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