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Commissioner calls for forensic audit of Snowden Elementary savings; board approves hiring outside accountant
Summary
A Beaufort County commissioner disputed the superintendent's claim that closing Snowden Elementary would save $1.76 million and moved to hire an outside CPA to review the school system's savings estimate; the motion was seconded and the board voted by hand.
During the budget presentation and subsequent discussion, Commissioner Richard publicly challenged the school superintendent’s claim that closing Snowden Elementary School would save $1,760,000 in local funds and called the superintendent’s numbers “false” and “phony.”
Richard said the superintendent was attributing roughly $1,400,000 of the claimed savings to teacher positions that the state pays, not local funds, and argued that county records do not reflect such savings. “With what the…
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